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eter.. During summer they are kept in a warm situation 
and. encouraged to grow,, flowers, and runners being care- 
fully picked off. In the beginning of winter they are shel- 
tered in cold frames, and they are afterwards successively 
placed, into hotbedg or forging-houses, s0 a8, to keep up a 
succession of fruiting plants. The air should be kept 
moist, and they must be. plentifully. supplied with water. 
Where the means are abundant, @ moderate supply of ripe 
fruit may thus be maintained during the late winter and 
the spring months. , Some cultivators provide new plants 
for forcing every year... But the same plants may be forced 
for, several successive years, provided they be shifted in 
August, and, at the time of repotting, the black torpid 
roots be cut off, leaving only those of a paler color, and 
which are connected with the new shoots or offsetts. 
At the meeting in 1849 of the National Congress of 
Fruit-growers, the following varieties: were recommended 
as the very best for culture, namely : Large Early Scarlet, 
Hovey’s Seedling, Boston Pine; and, as giving promise of 
being worthy to be added to the list, Burr’s New Pine, 
and Jenney’s Seedling. 
The Large Early Scarlet is of medium size, staminate 
or male, moderately but uniformly productive, and of good 
flavor. 
Hovey Seedling is very large. Specimens are often four, 
five and even six ‘inches in circumference; dark red, and 
very handsome oval shape, sometimes coxcomb ; reasonably 
productive when not too richly cultivated; of good flavor, 
and a favorite fruit for the table or market. In some 
locations and under some cultivators it is a fickle bearer. 
Pistillate. 
Boston Pine is also a large, aids high flavored fruit, 
bears high cultivation well; should be in single plants two 
