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giving them fresh food and larger pots, with plenty : 

 of air. The largest pots Mr. Mills uses are those of 

 eight to the cast; next size is 12, and the smallest 

 16 to the cast. (Mills on Pine Apple, 29.) 



Mr. Glendinning agrees with us in thinking that 

 the time when the pine plant requires a larger pot 

 must always be determined by the progress the roots 

 have made : let this on every occasion be the criterion, 

 and on no account shift a plant into a larger pot, 

 merely because it may be a general shifting, unless ■ - 

 the roots have made sufficient progress to justify the 

 act. Although we shift usually only twice, yet we 

 agree in thinking it impossible to state how often the . c 

 plants ought to be repotted, under all circumstances, ; « 

 or finally determine the capacity of the pot in which \ 

 the plants will mature their fruit. They must be \ \ 

 shifted as often as they require it ; which operation r « 

 should be resolved by the progress the roots make j 

 from time to time, until they attain a size to justify ' ] 

 their removal to the fruiting-house : when there, x \ 

 should they continue growing, they must still have j I 

 larger pots, until they show indications of fruiting, i j 

 and even then, if the roots have extended through f i 

 and completely enveloped the ball, a larger pot must 1 1 

 be substituted. {Glendinning on Fine Aj^ple, 23.) ; | 



Arrangement of Plants, — The same good practical »? i 

 authority gives the following directions on this point. 

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