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central bed 7| feet wide, which, holding seven rows of plants, should be 22| feet length 

 of bed. A house to contain the same number of succession plants in five rows at 18 

 inches' distance apart will need a bed 37J feet long. The fruiting plants, being the 

 same in numbers, will require, in four rows, 65 feet length of the bed shown in 

 Fig. 44, E or F. 



These arrangements are represented in the ground plan, Fig. 45, which in practice 

 will enable the grower to fruit at least fifty more plants than the estimated number 

 one hundred in consequence of the fruiting plants occupying their places considerably 

 less than twelve months in the fruiting house. For that reason it is desirable to have a 

 part of the fruiting house partitioned off, so that when fresh plants are started for fruiting, 

 those which have not ripened their fruit may be brought together in the smaller com- 

 partment, and receive the treatment best suited to their requirements. By means of a 



Fig. 45. GEOUND PLAN OF PINEEY. (Scale: 1 inch = 24 feet.) 



References : G, boiler house. H, potting house. I, sheds or fernery. J, nursing house. K, succession house. 

 L, Fruiting house : a, service hot- water pipes ; 6, hot- water pipes for top heat ; c, beds and hot-water pipes for 

 bottom heat ; d, paths ; e, partition in fruiting house. 



small lean-to or other low house or pit for propagating and forwarding the suckers to the 

 potting stage, considerably more pines may be cut annually than the numbers stated, 

 for the nursing pit or pits can be utilised for successional plants, and several of the 

 Queen or other dwarf-growing kinds may be fruited in either or both of the compart- 

 ments, J, K. Growers, therefore, must exercise judgment according to the means at 

 disposal. 



Where all the plants suckers, succession, and fruiting have to be grown in one 

 house, say a span-roof, Fig. 43, D, the suckers and successional plants should be placed 

 on one side of the path and those that are to fruit on the other. The beds must be heated 

 separately, command being had of them by valves, as the plants swelling and ripening 

 their fruits in autumn and winter require more bottom heat than do suckers and 

 successions. 



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