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mer months, with respect to giving and reducing it 

 hy degrees. 



Of the Suecesfi'ion-Pit, 



The succession plants must be treated, in all re- 

 spects, as above ; and also the bark-bed. They 

 should be shifted into pots of about nine or ten 

 inches diameter, and twelve deep ; and must be 

 put into the proper mould specified for tliem, in the 

 iSection on Soils for forced Plants. Let them be re- 

 plunged to the brim, eighteen inclies apart on a 

 medium. 



If the mercury stand at 65^, or between that 

 point and 70*^, in the night, fire-heat will not be ue- 

 cessary. 



Of the Fruiting Pit, 



It will be proper at this time (about the first of 

 the month) to renew the heat in the bark bed, 

 which will now have considerably decreased, in or= 

 der the better to swell off the fruit, and that the bot- 

 tom may keep pace with the superficial heat. Let 

 new bark, therefore, to the extent of about a tenth, 

 or an eighth part, be added; keeping it well down^ 

 however, that the pots may be entirely plunged in 

 the old bark. 



Trim the plants of decayed leaves, or those bruised 

 at the points; reducing an inch or two of the earth 

 from off the surface, and adding some fresh mould, 

 which will in\igorate the plants, cause them to push 

 surface radicals, and so keep them the more firm 

 and steady. This need not be done, Iiowever, to 



