510 THE HOT-HOUSE. [Sept. 



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, &e. 



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, and 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-Jlpphs. 



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 directed: but on no account should this be 

 delayed longer. Where it has been done in the preceding months, 

 and at that time no fresh tan added, it will now be necessary 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 in the pots again imme- 

 diately to their rims. 



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

 perature 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 not 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 

 winter, therefore examine the bed, and if it is declined in heat fork 

 it up and replunge the pots immediately: but if these were placed 

 on a tl vi n t^ hot -bed it may be necessary to renew the heat by a 

 lining of fresh hot dung applied to the sides, or to the sides and 

 ends; or if the bed is much sunk to work it up afresh, adding some 

 new dung thereto, laying on the top, as before, several inches of 

 light earth or tan in which to plunge the pots. After this it will 

 be necessarv to give a considerable portion of air to the plants, and 

 to raise the glasses behind when you find the steam rising in the 

 bed. When the nights begin to grow cold cover the glasses care- 

 fully with mats, and be very cautious not to keep your lights close 

 in sunny d.i\ .-. 



