SCTT.] 7»INE-APPLES. 4^ 



root ; dewing over the leaves only on occasions, and 

 in fits of better weather, that often intervene in au- 

 tumn. 



Of the Succession and Fruiting Pits. 



"WHiat is said above will apply to both these com- 

 partments of the pinery, except witii respect to the 

 temperature ; wliich must be kept, especially after 

 lire-heat becomes necessary, as nearly to 6.5° as pos- 

 sible ; and in sunshine, by the free admission of air, 

 to about 70° or '^'Z\ 



By covering at uiglit with canvas covers, or with 

 ■mat, fuel may be saved in any, or in all of these 

 compartments for some weeks; l)ut where fuel is 

 not very dear, the expense is not equal to the trou- 

 ble, and the risk of breaking glass. These covers 

 are certainly most eligible in severe weather in win- 

 ter, when, by their application, fuel to a very con- 

 siderable extent maybe saved, and that at no great- 

 er risk of breaking glass, than at another time, when 

 'Only a 'little fuel might be necessary. This consi- 

 deration alone is a sufficient reason for growing pine- 

 apples in these pits, instead of large stoves, that are 

 difficult to manage, and where the temperature in 

 winter is kept up at much expense. The reader 

 may see more an this subject, by turning to Sect. I. 

 ■on the Construction -of the Pinery. 



MELONS. 



Of groxiiug late Melons in a Flued Fit. 

 The reader is referred to this article for July, 

 ■About the beginning of the montli, it will be pro» 



