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soon as this is done, cover the soil about them with straw about 

 an inch thick — there they remain until November without any 

 other care during summer than raising the boxes so as to lift the 

 glass above the growing leaves and watering them ireely during 

 great heats. If the pines have not been neglected, their growth 

 will have reached over three feet in height by this time In the 

 first days of November your spring bed must be cooled and made 

 over again exactly as before filled with about twenty inches depth 

 of tan or mould, and cover with frames suitable to the growth of 

 the pines. When this bed is warm enough, take up very care- 

 fully the plants with a lump of the soil about their roots as big 

 as your fist, and put them in pots of about six inches diameter 

 only, in order that the restraint upon their roots may cause them 

 to fruit the better. Bring the pots in the bed and keep the air 

 off entirely for a month, until their new roots appear; then begin 

 to let them have a little air according to the state of the weather. 

 They will now pass tlieir second winter without danger. When 

 March arrives make a good bed of leaves like the former, adding 

 to it about ten inches depth of heath soil. As soon as this is 

 warm enough, take a warm day in fine weather to transport the 

 plants, and bury pots and plants so deep that you just see the 

 fruit out of ground; after this they require watering during 

 the summer in order to keep the air humid. The rays of the sun 

 should be dimmed by pointing the glass thinly over them with 

 Spanish white, and giving them air according to tlie heat of the 

 weather. The fruit may be expected to weigh, when ripe, from 

 five to seven and-a-half pounds, each about nine inches long by 

 sixteen inches round; they will be matured by November. This 

 cultivation is very economical and little if any inferior in fruit 

 to hot houses, &c. 



PLUM A\D APRICOT. 



Professor Mapes. The nectarine is a smooth skinned Peach, 

 has the habits and growth of the peach, is smaller and inferior to 

 the best peaches but superior to the common and equal to the 

 average sorts of them. The beauty of its appearance its wax 

 like surface render it a splendid dessert fruit. It has the noyeau 

 or peach leaf like flavor. 



