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Culture of the Queen Pine, 



The sections {,figs. 7. to 11.) 

 represent the different kinds of 

 pots employed. Fig. 1. is a 

 No. 48, S\ in. wide at top, 2| in. 

 wide at bottom, and ^\ in. deep. 

 Tig. 8. is a No. 32, 6| in. wide 

 at top, 3| in. wide at bottom, 

 and S\ in. deep. Tig. 9. is a No. 



24, 8^ in. wide at top, 5 in. wide at bottom, and 6| in. deep. 

 Tig. \0. is a No. 16, 9f in. wide at top, 5^ in. wide at bottom. 



and 8 in. deep. Tig. 

 11. is a No. 12, 

 1 l|;in. wide at top, . 

 65; in. wide at bot- 

 tom, and lOJ in. 

 deep. 



Though it seldom 

 happens that a queen 

 pine plant can go 

 irough all these sizes, if well grown. 



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yet I considered it necessary to give you the dimensions of the 



complete set of pots used here, as I 

 shall have to refer to them in detail- 

 ing the culture of the black pines. 



The degrees of heat, in the bark 

 bed mentioned in the following paper, 

 are not the result of guesswork, but 

 are taken, from actual observation, 

 by having a thermometer plunged in 

 the tan : though, for all practical 

 purposes, we use watch-sticks, yet it 

 would be useless to speak or write 

 about a warm stick or a hot stick. 



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Culture of a Complement of Queen Pines for early Truit. — The 

 suckers being from 12 in. to 20 in. in length, and proportionately 

 strong, were taken off the stools in the beginning of August ; and, 

 having lain exposed, in the pine stove, in that state about a week, 

 were dressed, and potted in No, 32-sized pots, in poor light soil; 

 and plunged two thirds the depth of their pots in a bark bed, in 

 which a thermometer, inserted that depth, stood at 80°. Till 

 the roots had reached the sides of the pots, we did not water the 

 soil; but syringed the plants, overhead, at shutting up in the 

 evenings of warm days, about twice a week : as the plants 

 increased, they were watered at their roots as they appeared to 

 be in want of that element. The temperature of the house, by 

 day, was not allowed to exceed 80° ; and, till about the middle 



