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work, that they may remain where placed 

 through the winter ; or if not convenient, to place 

 them either in the main pinery, succession house, 

 or bark pits, a new hot bed may be made to 

 receive them if thought necessary ; but the heat 

 of the old or new hot beds should always be 

 kept up as long as possible by additional linings, 

 and in cold weather, warm litter should be 

 applied round the sides of the frames, and the 

 glasses covered by night, and in frosty weather 

 they should be covered with litter or rnatts, 

 and in very severe weather both may be neces- 

 sary, the mats being placed outside to fasten 

 down the litter ; nevertheless, although I have 

 given these instructions relative to the manage- 

 ment of the pine plants in the hot beds, it is by 

 far more preferable, both for convenience and 

 safety, to remove them for the winter into the 

 pinery or bark pits. 



GENERAL CULTURE OF PINES. 



Par. 4. After giving plain yet sufficiently ela- 

 borate directions for raising the plants, it will 



