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and mixed as before with the old, and the plants plunged in it 
two feet apart. The plants must now get water to moisten the 
whole ball, adding to it manure-water and guano or artificial 
manure. The temperature should be 60° to 65° at night and 
70° through the day with fire-heat, 80° with sun. The moisture 
must be increased by damping paths, walls, etc. Care at this 
Season must be taken in watering not to let any plants get too 
wet. As the season advances a temperature of 70° mean should 
be maintained, and shutting up at 85° or 90° may be practised. 
The plants will throw up the young fruit in March and come into 
flower, and during the flowering period the house may be kept 
_ drier and there should be no syringing. Flowering being past, 
give more moisture and shut up with high temperatures from 
sun-heat. During May the fruit will swell rapidly. At the 
beginning of June the fruit will change colour, when more air and 
less watering and moisture will be requred ; attention must, 
however, always be paid to the keeping up of the bottom-heat. 
O maintain a supply of ripe pines all the year round suckers 
must be taken and plants potted on at frequent intervals. Three 
lots of Queens will be required for summer, and two lots of 
smooth-leaved Cayenne for winter. Cayennes are much shyer 
of throwing suckers than Queens. Get all the suckers you can 
by October, and if you have not enough for your purpose use 
crowns in spring. In the month of March get what suckers you 
can also, These two lots will give the fruit for the winter and 
spring months. The method of growing the Cayenne from 
suckers until it has ripened its fruit is the same as for the Queen, 
excepting that the Cayenne, being a stronger grower, expats & 
pot two inches larger for fruiting in. The Cayennes being the 
winter-fruiters, you keep them growing when the Queens are 
resting ; that is, as I have said, you lower the temperature for the 
Queens and keep them drier in winter. The Cayennes 7 keep 
at a mean night temperature of 60° to 65° in winter and 
10° higher through the day. Give them sufficient water and 
manure-water to keep them growing and to swell their fruit. 
To have ripe pines all the year round should not be attempted 
unless there are good pineries and good accommodation for 
growing them ; and if there are good pineries there is no more 
trouble in producing pines in winter than in summer. I have 
