20 FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. 



the plants in order to gain time. When such is the 

 case they should be kept gently on the move all winter, 

 by keeping the temperature at from 60° to 65°, with a 

 little more moisture at the root than has been recom- 

 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 surely 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 6 -inch and 8 -inch 

 pots as recommended. In my own practice I am, 

 however, never regulated by dates, but by the condi- 

 tion of the plants. Succession pine plants in a, proper 

 condition for shifting I would describe as those which 



