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dry, put them in smaller pots than before, and plunge them into 

 the bark bed." 



Baldwin says, " Take horse dung from the stable, the fresher 

 the better, sufficient to make up a hot bed three feet high, to 

 receive a melon frame three feet deep at the back ; put on the 

 frame and lights immediately, and cover the whole with mats, to 

 bring up the heat. When the bed is at the strongest heat, take 

 some faggots, open them, and spread the sticks over the surface 

 of the bed on the dung, so as to keep the plants from being 

 scorched; set the plants or suckers bottom uppermost on the 

 sticks ; shut down the lights quite close, and cover them over 

 well with double mats, to keep in the steam ; let the plants remain 

 in this state one hour, then take them out and wash them in a tub 

 of cold water previously brought to the bed ; then set them in a 

 dry place, with their tops downwards, to drain, and afterwards 

 plant them." 



The soil in which the Pine plant will grow rapidly, is the top 

 spit of a pasture that consists of a yellow loam, with the 

 sward chopped up amongst it. To this one-fourth of good rotten 

 stable dung, and about the same proportion of decomposed leaf 

 mould ; that produced from the Oak-tree leaves is the best ; 

 these should be all well intermixed together, and frequently 

 turned over previously to using. 



LIST OF PINE APPLES. 



Anson's Queen. New Black Jamaica. 



Black Antigua. Otaheite. 



Black Jamaica. Queen. 



Blood Red. Ripley Queen. 



Brown leaved Sugar Loaf. Russian Globe. 



Brown Sugar Loaf. Russian Cockscomb. 



Enville. Saint Vincent's. 



Globe. Silver Striped Queen. 



Green Providence. Striped leaved Sugar Loaf. 



Green Antigua. Surinam. 



Havannah. Trinidad. 



Lemon Queen. White Providence. 



Montscrrat. 



