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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



Pine Growing Simplified. — I will now endeavor to comply with the ex- 

 pressed wish of yourself and others, by giving a detailed account of my system 

 of pine culture. I send the end section of the pine stoves, and beg to add to 

 the information upon the card, by stating that there are two small doors in the 

 back wall of the pine pit, so that a man can enter the hot chamber, and pass 

 right round the hot-water pipes when needed. The middle wall is pigeon-holed, 

 and places left for a workman to pass through. The four-inch pipes pass on two 



REFERENCES TO THE PLAN. 



I. Rough flags which cover the hot ch.-.mber. 2. Three inclies of brickbats. 3. Three inches of red 

 sand. 4. One foot of pine soil. 5. Pines growing, planted without pots. 6. Four-inch pipe for bottom- 

 heat. 7. Five-inch hot-water pipes. 8. Pine stove, nine feet high. g. Front of stove, six feet high. 

 10. Inside stove, thirteen feet six inches wide and thirty-one feet long. 11. Brick wall, to bear the flags in 

 the middle. 



End section of the pine stove under my care at Swinton Park, wherein I grow the seventy-five pounds 

 eight ounces weight of pines from pine plants grown in this stove alone ; and let no one try to grow pines 

 without a stove something like this. 



sides and one end of the hot chamber ; likewise the five-inch pipes in the paths ; 

 a half-inch lead pipe runs along the top four-inch pipe, to fill the dishes with 

 water, by means of a stop-tap, in front path, and fixed to a water cistern. 



It will be seen by looking at the plan sent, that upon the rough flags there are 

 three or four inches of brickbats, and then three inches of sharp sand, then 

 filled up with pine soil : the whole depth from top of flags to top of soil is 

 eighteen inches. The soil used consists of two parts chopped sods one year 

 old, one part rough rotten leaves, one part horse droppings fresh from the sta- 



