The Gardener's New Director. 157 

 My intention in tranfplanting the fiuiting plants at 

 this leafon is, that they may fill tiieir pots by Michael- 

 masy when they are put into the (love for fruiting ; fo 

 that when they come into the ftove in this ftate, the 

 new heat will occafion them to (hew their fruit by the 

 beginning of January^ to ripen in June and July, which 

 are far preferable to the later fruit. As for the fmall 

 plants which are not to fruit until the fecond year, i 

 would not chufe to unpot them until Michaelmas -^ for 

 were they to have larger pots given them earlier, it 

 might occafion them to {hew iruit too foon, and out of 

 feafon ; to prevent which is a moft material part of the 

 management of them : therefore keep your plants al- 

 ways in a growing ilate, not to be flopped by too much 

 cold, or too much heat, otherwife they will fiiew un- 

 timely fruit. 



A fortnight before Michaelmas^ provide a good quan- 

 tity of new tan, laying it in heaps, and as foon as the 

 water has ran off, put it into the pit, raifing the fame 

 a foot higher than the walk about it ; I mean, the bark- 

 pit of No. 5. where you are to fet your largefl fruiting 

 plants. And here you may try an e::periment which 

 iucceeded very well with me. 



When 1 brought thefe plants into the (love, I took 

 twelve of them, and watering them well the night 

 before, raifed them out of the pots, with their earth, 

 and made pits in the tan, (which was in a good 

 temperatur.) one foot and a half diameter, and a foot 

 deep ; in thcfe I fet my plants, at thirty inches diflance 

 every way, filling up the vacancies with the fame fort 

 of earth, and covered the furface with a little old tan, 

 that it might not dry too foon. Thefe plants were 

 fet in one end of the pit, where the tan was raifed near 

 two feet higher than in any other part of the pit ; the 

 plants in the pots were fet at the diflance of five iect 

 from them, that they might not be diflurhed, when it 

 fliould be necefl"ary to renew the tan in March y for the 

 other pines. Thefe Pines in the free tan, I obferved, 

 fruited fooner than thofe in the pots, were fooner ripe, 

 and their fruit larger, and better flavoured. About 

 Chrijlmas, January, February^ and Marchy the air of the 

 houlc fliojld be kept up to five degrees above the Ana- 



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