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large loads of fresh bark with the old, keeping about a foot of the 

 old at top, to plunge the pines in. 



9. The succession plants half-plunged in the bark pit of the large stove. 



I gave them plenty of room, considerably more than they had tlirough 

 the winter, as I expected they would make free growth through the 

 summer. One row of small plants put in front of the Calcutta pit. 



10. As much old bark taken out of the back pit in the melon house as 



could be removed without disturbing the pots, and the vacuity filled 

 up with fresh bark, to renew the heat. A little clear water given to 

 all the pines, to settle the earth about the plants : 1 do not approve 

 of much water until they begin to grow again. As much steam as 

 possible raised by watering the flues, in order to encourage fresh 

 growth. 



17. Watered the fruiting pines with clear water. 



24. Watered all the pines with liquid manure, made of one peck of fowls' 

 dung, a quarter of a peck of quicklime, and a quarter of a peck of 

 soot, pouring upon it three gallons of boiling water, and adding thirteen 

 gallons of soft cold water, which left it at a temperature of about 80°. 



31. Pines in the fruiting houses watered with liquid manure; the succession 

 plants watered with clear soft water. 

 Jp7il. 



7. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



16. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



21. Pines watered with clear water. 



29. Watered the pines with liquid manure. 



Mai/. 

 5. Watered the pines with liquid manure. 



12. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



18. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



26. Pines watered with liquid manure, 



30. The winter fruiting pines having all ripened in the front pit of the 

 melon house, the stumps taken out, the suckers pulled off, and the pit 

 renewed. 



June. 



1. Examined the bark pit in the large stove, and found the heat moderate, 



so got a load of fresh bark, and filled it up to the rims of the pots j 

 the old stumps of Providence pines, repotted last August, having pro- 

 duced a good sucker each, they were this day taken out, the sucker 

 carefully pulled off, and stuck in among the bark in the fruiting 

 pits. The row of succession plants, plunged in the front of the 

 Calcutta, having grown very well, they were potted ; and also such 

 suckers or crowns as had rooted among the bark in the fruiting 

 house were potted ; and all of them plunged in the front pit of the 

 melon house. 



2. Pines watered with liquid manure, except such as were ripening or 



newly potted. 



8. Watered the pines with liquid manure. 



13. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



22. Pines watered with limewater. 



27. Pines watered with liquid manure. The season being now very 

 warm, water was given very freely, so as to make the soil quite wet. 



JuIj/. 

 4. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



11. Pines watered with liquid manure. 



17. Succession plants tied carefully up with broad bast mat, and taken 

 into the shed to be potted. 



