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they may eacli be expected to produce a fruit as large 

 as the one preceding. Neither can they fail to do so 

 in a very few months, if the proper means be properly 

 applied. {Gard, Chron, 1846, 252.) 



Number a Bed will contain, — If a pine pit is con- 

 structed 8 feet wide in the clear, and in compartments 

 of 32 feet in length, each compartment will hold 38 

 or 40 strong fruiting plants, either in pots or turned 

 out. Eight feet is a very convenient width for getting 

 at the whole of the plants to water, and to attend 

 to their general wants. The pit may easily be con- 

 structed in shorter compartments, and it is certain 

 that pines cultivated in any stage of their growth in 

 small compartments may be most readily supplied ap- 

 propriately with heat, air, and water. 



CALENDAR OF PINE CULTURE. 



This department of our subject is beset with diffi- 

 culties, for even some of the most successful culti- 

 vators of the pine apple vary when they assign the 

 temperatures, degrees of moisture, &c., appropriate 

 to particular periods of its growth. Moreover there 

 is no doubt that those circumstances should be varied 

 according to the brightness or cloudiness of the sea- 

 son, and according, also, to the vigour of the plants. 



