190 OBSERVATIONS ON SHIFTING PINES, &C. 



arrived at full maturity, they become too mellow, 

 and lose much of their peculiar delicious flavour. 

 The autumn or October management being 

 so clearly laid down in former paragraphs, it will 

 be unnecessary to introduce (separately) any 

 further observations on that head, although in 

 the next paragraph some useful directions will be 

 given. 



OBSERVATIONS ON SHIFTING PINES, INCLUDING 

 DIRECTIONS FOR AUTUMN MANAGEMENT. 



Par. 20. Before leaving the subject, I may 

 be excused for offering a few additional remarks 

 on shifting pines generally. 



The succession plants will generally require 

 shifting twice a year, but the fruiting plants 

 must not be again disturbed in the pots, after the 

 late summer, or what is generally termed the 

 autumn shifting, prior to their fruiting the fol- 

 lowing season ; unless they become infected with 

 any disease in their early fruiting state, which is 

 sometimes the case ; and if such disease should 

 baffle the remedies applied for its cure, it may 

 then be necessary, as a last resource, to endeavor 



