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Some have underftood the reafon why 

 Pines are planted in pots inflead of the fur- 

 face of the bed, to be the want of perma- 

 nent heat in it ; that they may be removed 

 with the greater facility in the time of 

 renewing the bark, &c. This is not my 

 idea of the matter. For were the heat of 

 the bed rendered ever fo permanent, I 

 would rather grow my Pines in pots : and 

 here let me obferve, that I would never 

 wifti to be concerned in the culture of 

 Pines, unlefs I had at leaft two diftinft 

 compartments for the purpofe. All plants 

 of any kind do not grow alike in their 

 native clime ; much lefs the Pine in an 

 artificial one. Hence the neceffity of at 

 leaft two compartments, and growing the 

 plants in pots ; that they may be removed 

 and clailed, according to circumftances, 

 with the greater eafe and fafety. More- 

 over, many plants, in any lituation, do 

 much better in pots than otherwife : of 

 thefe are all the fucculent tribe $ and 

 furely the Pine may be reckoned amongil 

 them. 



