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leaves, and large fruit of from eight to twelve berries, of a 

 fine aromatic taste, much more juicy than those which are 

 grown in mould. 



Of the Transplanting of Pine-apples with the Balls. — If it 

 is wished to transplant such roots as have been grown in moss, 

 pots of a proportionate size are again selected, which receive 

 a substratum of the mixture of moss and horn shavings, as 

 described before, rammed in in the same manner. The pots 

 with the plants are then turned over, the latter taken out with 

 the balls, freed from the dry or superfluous green leaves, 

 placed on the substratum in the pot, and the interval between 

 the ball and the pot filled up with the moss mixture, which is 

 properly pressed down, salt having been introduced between 

 the layers as before. It is, however, to be observed, that the 

 plant must always be sunk into the leaves, and no part of the 

 stem beneath them remain uncovered. The sinking of the 

 pots, and the watering, airing, and shading of the plants, 

 require no description. 



I must, however, mention a useful observation which I have 

 made. In order to simplify and shorten the other process, I 

 planted the pine-apples this year in March, in a soil prepared 

 of improved loam earth, dung-bed earth, brook slime, and 

 horn shavings, which had such an injurious effect on the 

 plants, that the leaves lost their fine green colour, and faded, 

 and the roots did not show themselves till August, after which 

 the plants certainly again recovered. 



But whether this was occasioned by the transfer of the 

 plants from moss into earth, or by the lime which is contained 

 in the two latter kinds of earth, I must find out by farther ex- 

 periments. I am, Sir, &c. 



Jacob Seimel. 

 Bogenhaasen, near Munich, Nov. 23. 1828. 



Art. XXVIII. Observations on the Management of Vines in the 

 Pinery. By Mr. Geo. Fulton, Gardener to Lord Northwick. 

 Read at the Vale of Evesham Horticultural Society, Sept. 25. 

 1828. 



The high estimation in which the finer kinds of grapes are 

 held, and the different modes of cultivating the vine in the 

 present day, form an inducement (after considerable practice) 

 for me to state my method, which, although not quite new, 

 may perhaps be regarded as, an improvement on the general 

 mode of cultivation. 



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