FORCING DEPARTMENT. am* 



singled out, and a few of the bottom leaves stripped 

 off, so as to encourage fresh roots from that part of 

 the stem : the upper surface of the ball of mould is 

 also reduced; and the plants, thus prepared, are 

 carefully re-potted into fresh soil, and again placed in 

 the succession pits, and are kept in a moist growing 

 heat until July, when they are removed into the 

 fruiting department, in the room of those whose fruit 

 has been previously cut. They are now kept well 

 supplied with heat and water, and generally perfect 

 their fruit at the latter end of the season. 



MANAGEMENT OF THE FRUITING PINE PLANTS. 



Those Pine plants that are intended for the prin- 

 cipal crop the ensuing year, are generally shifted in 

 the latter end of September or beginning of October, 

 into such sized pots as the size and strength of the 

 plant may require ; these pots vary from 12 to 14 

 inches in diameter, and about the same dimensions 

 in depth. About two inches of broken bones are 

 put in the bottom of the pots for drainage, and 

 then the Pines are carefully transferred into the 

 larger sized ones, with their balls of earth entire, 

 which should not be reduced at this shifting ; but 

 the interstices betwixt them and the side of the 

 pots, are filled up with the fresh soil, which has 

 been previously prepared. Whilst the shifting of 

 the plants is proceeding with, the bed u{ leaves is 



