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should seldom feel more than milk warm, at the 

 times of regulation. And observe, that in cold 

 weather, or in a stormy night, the fires are not to 

 be stirred up, and the fuel increased, as in a hot- 

 house, to raise its temperature ; else both fruit and 

 shoots may be ruined, and they had better take their 

 chance of the weather for the time. Continue 

 the fires in the above mild manner till the end of 

 October, when the shoots will be fully ripened, and 

 their growth will stop for the season. 



THE PINERY. 



Of taking off and preparing the Crowns and Suckers. 



It is supposed the fruit are now all, or nearly all 

 cut ; and as a general potting of the succession 

 plants must take place about the first or middle of 

 the month, it is proper to remove the old stocks 

 from which the fruit have been cut, and make room 

 for them in the fruiting-pit. The nurse-plants now 

 become the succession ; the succession the fruiters 

 for next season ; and the crowns and suckers occu- 

 py the nursing-pit. 



The suckers may be twisted from off the stocks, 

 and may be laid by, in a dry shed or loft, for a few 

 days, till the other operations in the pinery be per- 

 formed, and the nursing-pit be ready to receive 

 them and the crowns ; (collected as the fruit have 

 been gathered) ; which, if rooted, may be potted as 

 noticed below, and may be placed for the above 

 time, either in a frame, or in a forcing-house of any 

 kind, as they will sustain no injury, though out of 

 the bark-bed, for so short a time. Such crowns as 



