BRITISH MODES OF CULTIVATING 



is generally the same as the width. The pots are 

 plunged up to their rims, unless the heat be very 

 violent, and are liberally supplied with heat, air, 

 and water. Mr. Andrews does not fear 90 or 100 

 degrees of heat in the bark bed, even when the 

 air of the house by fire-heat is not above 60 or 

 65. In summer, he allows the thermometer to 

 rise to 90 or a 100 before he gives air, and he 

 often leaves some at the top-lights all night. 

 Insects. On this subject nothing new can be 

 gathered from the practice of Mr. Andrews, for 

 he has never had any worth destroying by a regu- 

 lar process. His practice affords an ample proof 

 that regimen and cleanliness will never allow in- 

 sects to increase to an injurious degree. 



Fruit produced. We have already noticed the 

 circumstance of Mr. Andrews' plants being often 

 sold before they arrive at the stage for fruiting. 

 His stock, however, has been lately greatly in- 

 creased by the erection of additional houses, and 

 the easy mode of heating them from the steam 

 apparatus ; he now, therefore, sends a number to 

 market, and chiefly in the winter season, and early 

 in spring, when the price is highest. Their fruit 

 weigh from one to four pounds, and are almost 

 exclusively of the Queen Pine. 



