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house about the tenth of this month, and the others successively, 

 according to their respective degrees of tenderness, so that the 

 whole collection may be in, by the eighteenth or twentieth thereof, 

 or a few days earlier should the weather happen to be cold. Here 

 they are to remain, closing the windows at night and giving them all 

 the air possible on warm and mild days, till towards the end of the 

 month, or sooner if you have the bark-pit renewed, and the Hot- 

 house ready for their reception. 



When you have every thing in readiness, dress the plants, by 

 picking off all decayed leaves, and especially those which are annoy- 

 ed with insects, cut away all awkward and ill placed branches, and 

 give each pot a fresh top dressing of suitable compost, then plunge 

 the whole to their rims in the bark-pit, placing the smallest in 

 front and the tallest behind The succulent sorts and such as you 

 have not room for in the pit, may be set on shelves arranged over 

 the flues, &c. 



Now the plants being in order and placed in their winter quar- 

 ters, it will be of much importance to give them plenty of air every 

 favourable day, by sliding open the upright glasses, arid also the 

 roof lights, if necessary, in order to prevent their being drawn up 

 too tender before winter; for the fresh bottom heat will give 

 new action to the plants, and render abundance of air the more neces- 

 sary ; observe, however, to close the lights every evening when the 

 house is tolerably warm, and to open them as early in the morning 

 as you find the thermometer up to 60 degrees of Fahrenheit. 



It is scarcely necessary to mention that every plant must have a 

 due supply of water from time to time, according to its nature and 

 necessity. 



Pine 



Succession pine plants which are expected to produce fruit next 

 year, may in the first week of this month, if omitted in July and 

 August, be shifted as there directed ; but on no account should this 

 be delayed longer. Where it had been done in the preceding 

 months, and at that time no fresh tan added, it will now be neces- 

 sary to examine the heat of the bark-bed in the succession house, 

 wherein the plants in general are plunged, and if you find it very 

 weak, fork up the tan to the bottom and plunge the pots again imme- 

 diately to their rims, 



This will revive the heat of the bed, and continue it in a due 

 temperature till next month, when the plants must be removed 

 into the fruiting-house and plunged in a bed made wholly of new 

 tan. 



The younger succession pines, intended to succeed those, if not 

 lately done, should now be shifted into larger pots, the tan forked up, 

 and the pots replunged immediately, after having received a little 

 water. 



Crowns and Suckers. 



The crowns and suckers of this year's production, will require a 

 brisk bottom heat, to enable the plants to make good roots before 



