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plant, to the bottom of the large pot, first placing 

 three or four broken pieces of pots at the bottom, to 

 prevent the communication of heat between their bot- 

 toms. A cavity is thus formed all round, between 

 the two pots, which will prevent the roots from being 

 scalded. Although buried deep in the tan, the outer 

 pot ought to be several inches deeper than the inner 

 one, and in earthing up, observe to put nothing but 

 broken bricks above the cavity, so that the heat may 

 freely escape to the surface, without injuring the bot- 

 tom roots ; and at every process of earthing up, no- 

 thing but the sods, or the lumpy part of the compost, 

 ought to be used ; and fresher the better, provided 

 the vegetable fibre is dead. All the varieties of the 

 pine, except the ^Tiite Providence, have one sucker 

 or more in progression, whilst the plant is swelling its 

 fruit : in such cases one only ought to remain, the 

 others should be destroyed as they appear, except the 

 cultivator prefers quantity to quality. At every 

 process of earthing up, none of the leaves must be 

 shortened nor taken ofi*, except a few at the bottom, 

 to allow the emission of new roots into the fresh com- 

 post ; and whenever water is used, either to the roots, 

 or by sprinkling the foliage, it ought to be several 

 degrees warmer than the atmosphere in the house. 

 After the fourth fruit has been perfected, cut off the 

 sucker which produced the last fruit, with from six to 

 eight inches of the old trunk attached to its bottom. 



