152 GENERAL CULTURE OF PINES. 



now become necessary to furnish instructions for 

 their future and general cultivation. 



If the plants are raised at home, as directed 

 in the last paragraph, I need not add any thing 

 more on the subject of removal, but where pine 

 plants are brought from a distance, it will be 

 highly requisite that great care and attention 

 should be paid to their removal ; and the season 

 most proper, for the principal furnishing the 

 pinery, being early in the autumn, (September 

 or October is the most preferable, but not later 

 than November,) will be the most desirable time 

 to remove them ; but this will depend on circum- 

 stances; for if not convenient in the autumn, 

 they may be removed in the spring, about the 

 end of March, or beginning of April, or almost 

 at any time, but these are the two principal 

 seasons. 



When removing pine plants a considerable 

 distance, which are large, the leaves should be 

 gently drawn together and tied, and then placed 

 upright in a cart or waggon (a spring van is best) 

 with plenty of soft straw or litter, which should 

 be made firm as possible between the pots to 



