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ature may be. When they are removed into the 

 f'ruiting-house in September, they should be wa- 

 tered cautiously till towards February, and as the 

 spring advances they will require a large supply. 

 Never water the plants in the common broad-cast 

 method, over their heads and leaves. 



" Give air in the stoves and frames, both in sum- 

 mer and winter, when the weather will permit, from 

 the back and ends, but not from the roof. 



" Expeditious cultivation. The New Providence, 

 Black Antigua, Jamaica, and Enville, and the other 

 large sorts of Ananas, will require the cultivation 

 of three years to bring them to perfection, but the 

 Old Queen and the Ripley's New Queen may be 

 brought to perfection in fifteen months. To effect 

 this, it must be observed, that some of the plants 

 will fruit in February, or the beginning of March, 

 and consequently that the suckers may be taken 

 off in June* or the beginning of July ; make then 

 a good bed of tan with linings of litter round the 

 outside to keep in the tan ; make the bed to fit a 

 large melon frame ; put the suckers into pots of 

 about nine inches diameter, filled with the com- 

 post ; plunge them into the bed prepared in regular 

 order, and throw a mat over them in hot weather 

 for shade till they have taken root ; let them re- 

 main till the end of September, and then shift them 

 into pots of about twelve inches diameter, and 

 plunge them in the fruiting-house." He has had 

 fine crops of Pines raised from these suckers, many 

 of them four pounds each, from plants only fifteen 



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