20 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



mended. The highest temperature named should be 

 given during the brightest and calmest weather, when 

 it can be secured without anything like violent firing ; 

 and during weather the reverse of this, the lowest is 

 much the safest. This winter growth can only be 

 pursued with success when the pineries are light and 

 fully exposed to every ray of sunshine that can possibly 

 be had. Otherwise the plants will become drawn and 

 weakly, a condition which will more surply than any 

 other defeat the object in view. It is only when there 

 is a scarcity of good succession plants that I would 

 advise these autumn suckers to be pushed on with the 

 view of resting them in April and May, in order to 

 start them for supplying fruit in autumn. 



SUCCESSION PLANTS — SPRING TREATMENT. 



This is the distinguishing term which is applied in 

 spring to the suckers of the previous autumn, and it is 

 as succession plants that I will now treat of their spring 

 and summer culture. 



Except in the case of plants which may have been 

 kept in a growing condition all winter, it rarely occurs 

 that September-potted suckers require a shift into 

 larger pots before the middle of February; more espe- 

 cially if at first they are potted into six and eight inch 

 pots as recommended, which I am aware are larger sizes 

 than rootless suckers are generally potted into. In my 

 own practice I am, however, never regulated by dates, 

 but by the condition of the plants. Succession pine 

 plants in a proper condition for shifting I would describe 

 as those which have moderately filled their pots with 

 roots in a white and healthy state of preservation. 



