CH. 9.] * PINES. 



(which they ought not), nothing of this 

 kind is neceflary. 



The crowns are gathered one by one, 

 as the fruit is ufed; and ihould be ftuck 

 into the bark-bed till the whole crop, both 

 of them and flickers, can be potted toge- 

 ther Let a few. of the bottom-leaves be 

 rubbed off wkh the thumb, and let the un- 

 der part of the ftump be fmoothed with 

 the knife ; and place them in pots of three 

 or four inches in diameter and five or fix 

 deep*, (according to their fizes), being 

 filled with entire vegetable mould of de- 

 cayed tree-leaves ; in the bottoms of which 

 mould previoufly be laid a little clean gra- 

 vel, of the fize of horfe-beans, to the thick- 

 nefs of an inch. 



Meantime, let the nurfing-pit be pre- 

 pared for their reception ; and, deviating 

 M 4 from 



* Pots of this proportion are not generally to be had ; 

 but where there is a flock of Pine plants, there ihould 

 be a fet of pots of all fizes made for them on purpofe, 

 three or four inches deepertn proportion to their width, 

 than thofe in general ufe. My reafon for which is, that 

 a handful of clean gravel may be laid in the bottom of 

 each pot, which I find is of infinite fervice to the plant ; 

 the Pine requires frequent refrefliings with water, but 

 Tvill not bear the fmalkft degree of its flagnation, 



