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smaller in front may be allotted for the succes- 

 sion and small plants. 



At the same time, where there are separate 

 houses, it is more convenient, and generally 

 more successful, for by having the succession 

 and small plants in a separate house or in other 

 bark pits, a more general moderate heat may 

 be kept therein, than sometimes is required for 

 the iruiting pines in winter, and more particu- 

 larly towards spring, when it is necessary to 

 forward the fruiting; moreover, the main stove 

 will not require to be so much crowded, and 

 the strong heat which is requisite for the 

 fruiting plants, will sometimes cause the suc- 

 cession plants to fruit in that early state, before 

 they have size or strength sufficient to be of 

 any valuable size; and also the small plants will 

 occasionally run to fruit through the same cause, 

 without being of any use, and those which do 

 not, are frequently also injured ; and when the 

 regular succession is thus injured, it will cause 

 great disappointment for the following two 

 years : although I have given these hints, to 

 prevent the chance of disappointment where it 



