FORCING DEPARTMENT. 



season. The Antigua, Jamaica Sugar-loaf, Provi- 

 dence, and several other of the large growing kinds, 

 as well as the late planted crowns and suckers of 

 the Queen's, will, however, require the cultivation of 

 another season, to bring the plants to that degree of 

 strength, which is requisite for the production of 

 good sized fruit. These are, therefore, selected; and 

 such as appear to have out-grown their pots, are 

 shifted into others, a size larger, and re-plunged in 

 the succession pits, which should be turned over while 

 the operation of re-potting is proceeding with ; so 

 that the plants may be all again arranged in the 

 bed the same day they are taken out of it. It is, 

 however, necessary to observe, that a very mild bot- 

 tom heat only should be continued at this late period 

 of the Summer ; as, if the roots be now injured, they 

 will not freely produce fresh ones before the return 

 of the growing season. 



In October, as the nights are generally becoming 

 cold and damp, the pits will require to have their 

 coverings resumed, and the temperature gradually 

 reduced to about 65 degrees, mornings and evenings. 

 The syringing over the leaves is also dispensed with 

 at this season, and less supplies of water given to the 

 roots, as the evaporation, arising from the bed of fer- 

 menting substances and dung linings, will keep the 

 herb in a state of moisture during the Winter months. 

 About the first or second week in November, or as 

 soon as a sufficient quantity of fresh tree leaves can 

 be procured, those that have been in use the past 

 season, and which will now be much exhausted by 

 the constant damp they are subject to, proceeding 

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