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plunging them as before in the beds, and giving 

 them a slight watering. 



Towards the first of Jane the plants should 

 be shifted again j the bark-beds being wrought 

 over to about half their depths, and a little fresh 

 tan added when necessary; the plants, with 

 their balls entire, being then placed into pots 

 of about ten inches diameter, plunging them 

 at the distance of eighteen inches from centre 

 to centre into the beds, and with a little water 

 settling them. 



Jn regard to potting, Mr. Nicol remarks, that 

 at all times a lew of the bottom leaves should 

 be twisted off each plant, that fresh roots may 

 be made more readily to furnish the surface, 

 which tends to keep them more steady in the pots. 



The fire-heat in these eases should be begun 

 about the same period as before, according to 

 Mr. Nicol, and kept to about 6<> degrees of 

 the thermometer till the beginning of March, 

 and then gradually increased to 03° for the re- 

 mainder of the season. 



The plants should be refreshed occasionally 

 with a little water, according as the earth in the. 

 pots becomes dry, or as the state of the wea- 

 ther demands. They should likewise have a 

 more free admission of fresh air whenever the 

 season will admit of it without danger. 



Culture in the Fruiting- Stove or Hot-house. — 

 The plants raised in the nursery-pits, and con- 

 tinued in their growth in the succession-stoves, 

 having attained a proper size and strength, 

 should, towards the latter end of August, or 

 the beginning of the following month, be placed 

 in the pots in which they are to fruit in the same 

 manner as before, and deposited in the stoves of 

 the hot-house, which should have the bark-beds 

 prepared for their reception, by trenching them 

 to the bottom, and adding about a tenth part of 

 new tan in a proper state of preparation for the 

 purpose, being well blended, and made so as to 

 fill up the pits well. 



The pots in which the plants are now put 

 should be about afoot in diameter, which should 

 be plunged in the beds to the brims; a gentle 

 watering being immediately given. In potting 

 the plants, Mr. Nicol, in. these cases, advises the 

 use of a small stick to trundle the mould down 

 between the balls and the sides of the pots, so as 

 to leave no cavities ; a circumstance which 

 should be attended to at all limes, as being of 

 great utility. 



The management in this state differs but little 

 from that of the preceding: the chief circum- 

 stance is that of keeping up the heat in as re- 

 gular a manner as possible, with the addition 

 4of a due degree of refreshing moisture and free 

 air. 



The beds should, about the middle of No- 

 vember, be stirred to half their depths, and a 

 little tan be added: but the plants must not be 

 shifted at this period; they only require to be 

 replungcd to the brims again in the beds for the 

 winter. It is the common practice at this time, 

 to add a large quantity of new tan, in order to 

 keep up a strong bottom beac through this 

 season ; than which, Mr. Nicol thinks, nothing 

 can be more erroneous. He has already re- 

 marked that the bottom and superficial heat 

 ought to correspond at all times; and if the 

 house is to be wrought to 60° only for the winter, 

 it follows, he supposes, that a very moderate 

 bottom heat is sufficient. The temperature of 

 the house being so much reduced in winter is, 

 he conceives, to prevent the plants from starting 

 too soon Into fruit; and their doing so is fre- 

 quently more in consequence of too much bottom 

 heat, than irregularity in the temperature of the 

 stove. 



In the beginning of February, which is- the 

 best showing season, the bark-beds will require 

 trenching; which is the only time of the year 

 that Mr. Nicol advises a deviation from the rules 

 given above. From this time, the house in his 

 opinion should be wrought as high as 70°, and 

 the bottom heat keep regular pace with the su- 

 perficial; for which new tan to the extent of a 

 sixth part should be added. Such of the plants, 

 he observes, as are not shoun, are healthy at 

 the root, and stand erect and 'firm in the pots, 

 should have a little fresh mould laid on the sur- 

 face, by the removal of about two inches of the 

 old. But those that are already shown, and 

 those that are anywise unhealthy, or appear 

 stunted, should be shaken out entirely, and re- 

 placed with fresh mould in the same pots; but 

 none of the roots, unless wasred, should be cut 

 away or removed. This, so far as it respects the 

 plants that are shown, he presumes has not 

 hitherto been recommended; he is consequently 

 happy in being enabled to do it with confidence, 

 as it has ever been a matter to be regretted, that 

 pines, from the want of sun and air in the 

 winter months, are apt to be stunted, and show 

 their fruit too soon; and that fruit so shown, 

 seldom comes to be of any considerable size or 

 flavour; the plants so stunted being unable to 

 nourish the fruit; and this, from the want of 

 sunshine in the early months, coming far short 

 in flavour to that matured at a later period. 



It is added that the experiment was tried on a 

 dozen of plants;, the half of which were in, 

 and the other half past the flower, at this time 

 of the year. The result was, that they were 

 kept back a full month by the operation ; those 

 that were past the flower equalled, and those 



