154 GENERAL CULTURE OF PIKES, 



method, in order that the reader may not be con- 

 fused with various methods under this head. 

 The autumn being the season for preparing the 

 pinery for the plants, or at least the time when 

 the most full and necessary directions are re- 

 quired, I will commence with instructions ac- 

 cordingly. 



The pits should now be furnished with new 

 tan, and some of the best of the old may be 

 screened and mixed among the new, raising 

 it several inches above the top of the pit to 

 allow for settling ; and when it has become of 

 a proper moderate heat, both in the principal 

 pinery and the succession house, the pots should 

 be plunged in the bark, placing the largest 

 behind, and the smallest in front ; and when 

 there is no succession house, or other conve- 

 nience, the small plants may be placed in front 

 of the large fruiting plants in the main or 

 fruiting pinery, or at one end, placing the suc- 

 cession plants next the fruiting, and the smaller 

 or next in succession near the end, or in large 

 pineries where there are two pits, the largest 

 behind should be for the fruiting plants, and the 



