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AUTUMN ARRANGEMENTS PREPARATORY TO THE 

 COMING WINTER. 



So various are the means at hand to grow pines, as 

 well as the chosen routine of management in various 

 places, that is is somewhat difficult to say how pines 

 must be wintered. 



It becomes necessary, however, in the end of Octo- 

 ber, to lay down a scheme for their winter's manage- 

 ment. One thing is really necessary in all cases; 

 and that is, as observed in the early part of this Ca- 

 lendar, to endeavour to get the fabric of quick-grown 

 plants solidified by the last remains of autumn sun- 

 light. This must be, in the main, accomplished by 

 a most free circulation of air, and by suffering both 

 bottom and top heat to come quietly downwards in the 

 scale, without any unnatural attempts to accomplish 

 any thing beyond the well-being and sure preservation 

 of the plants. 



Where the young stock must be preserved in ordi- 

 nary pits or frames by means of fermented material 

 alone, some previous care is necessary. In such cases 

 the bed should be renewed by fresh fermenting mat- 

 ter, and the early fallen autumn leaves blended with 

 a very small amount of hot manure, and fermented 

 once before use, may be resorted to for this purpose. 

 However, all this is not for the production of unnatu- 

 ral bottom heat, but to produce a durable bed, which, 



