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cient heat to answer the purpose ; and in this 

 pit the pots of pine plants are to be plunged. 

 The second method is to place the pine-pots on 

 a brick stand, in a moderate heat, and without 

 being plunged in either tan or leaves. He is a 

 most valuable gardener, and finds time for many 

 nice little experiments without ever neglecting his 

 regular work. All his carrot, parsnip, and beet 

 roots are taken up and preserved in dry sand ; he 

 is now sowing celery under glass frames for an 

 early crop for next year ; and Mary says they 

 have had celery every day since July, in Con- 

 tinual succession, as he constantly earthed it up, 

 adding still to the height of the earthing in order 

 to increase its size and whiteness. His peas 

 and beans he sowed three weeks ago in the 

 warm border in front of the south fruit-wall. He 

 is now going to protect them from frost by 

 branches of fir-trees, and he hopes to have some 

 ready for the table by the second week in May. 

 What a contrast there is between the labour 

 and attention necessary here for all these vege- 

 table productions, and the luxuriance with which 

 they spring up in Brazil! But there is a pleasure 

 I am sure in successful industry, that is scarcely 

 understood by the indolent inhabitants of those 

 warm and fertile climates. 



25th. Yesterday being a bright lovely day, 

 my uncle and aunt took advantage of it to go to 



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