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rate divisions, or practise a system of re- 

 moval from one pit to another, so as to 

 be able to start tliem into fruit at the 

 particular time wished. But as this is 

 seldom required, except by those who 

 grow for market, I need not enlarge upon 

 this head, but proceed at once to consider 

 the plan by which a family may be supplied 

 witli a good pine-apple, at almost any 

 season, witliout incurring that degree of 

 careand nice management required by them 

 on the pot system ; not tliat I mean, by 

 so saying, tluit the pine, under any system 

 of treatment, will bear neglect or irregular 

 attendance, but that on the " planted 

 out" plan there is far less risk of burn- 

 ing, cbilling, or soddening the roots with 

 water than there is with fermenting ma- 

 terials in conjunction with pots ; and, what 

 is of equal importance tolhe amateur on tlie 

 system I am advocating, they, when once 

 established, require very little meddhng 



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with, as they are to stand and perfect at 

 least two crops from the same plant ; or, 

 to be more explicit, I should say from 

 the plant and the suckers that spring from 

 the side of the old stem, and which will 

 be in progress of growth whilst the first 

 fruit is ripening. Tlie only thing to be done 

 wlien the fruit is cut is to thin the suckers 

 to two, if there are more than that number ; 

 indeed, it is well to destroy all above that 

 number on each plant as soon as they 

 are perceived. Some of tlie old leaves at 

 the base of the stem to be at the same time 

 removed, and some nice fresh earth piled 

 roimd tlie plant, an inch or two above the 

 base of the suckers. They will then have 

 been placed in a position for perfecting 

 their next fruit. Any crowns or suckers 

 may, as they come to hand, be stuck in 

 the front row, and there may grow on 

 until wanted to fill some vacant place in 

 the fruiting rows. Herewith is given a 

 plan of the pine-pit under my cliarge ; 

 which, for simplicity, cannot, I think, be 

 surpassed. 



The wood plates that rest upon the 

 walls, as also the rafters, are "red- wood 

 deal," three inches by four inches, with a 

 spline upon them to separate the lights, 

 exactly as in ordinary pits and frames 

 where the lights slide up and down. The 

 lights used arc also the ordinary kind, 

 only having handles with which to slide 

 them up and down with, fixed at the 

 lower instead of the upper end. These 

 lights are about seven feet long; the rest 



A, stokery, five feet deep ; R, back path, two 

 feet wide ; C, chimney, but if tlie flue could be 

 carried into some other it would be better; D, 

 bed of soil for plants to be planted in, six feet 

 ■wide ; E, chamber in which two-inch flow and 

 return pipes are fixed for bottom-heat ; F, flow, 

 which is also two-inch pipe as far as S, where the 

 stop yalve is fixed; G, piers; H, sliding hghts, 

 seven feet long- ; these slide under the fixed lights, 

 K, so as to admit of any necessary operations iu 

 front part of house being done from without, 

 as well as for air. J, door ; L, flow and return four- 

 inch pipes, with vapour troughs ; M, groundliue; 

 N, steps]; K, return pipe. 



