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it is necessary to keep up a suceessiou of fruity we 

 would recommend the structure to be in small com- 

 partments, in order to have at full command the ap- 

 plication, or withholding, any of the requisites from 

 those in various stages of fruit swelling or growth. 

 If fruit can he produced equally good from plants in 

 pots as those turned out, those in pots have the addi- 

 tional advantage, that they may be treated indivi- 

 dually with stimulants, or these may be wholly with- 

 held at pleasure, and when the fruit has finished its 

 growth a potted plant with its fruit may be lifted out, 

 and placed in a light airy situation to ripen gradually, 

 which is decidedly a great advantage in producing 

 beauty of colour and superiority of flavour. The 

 rich flavour of a large portion of pines cultivated in 

 this country is entirely sacrificed through close con- 

 finement, being ripened too quickly, being allowed to 

 stand too long on the plant previously to cutting, and 

 being kept too long after being cut before being made 

 use of. To obtain a pine apple of first-rate excel- 

 lence, the application of water should be moderated 

 for a time previously to its finishing swelling, and 

 when its swelling is concluding, water, and moisture 

 of air, should be withheld altogether, and the fruit 

 should have the benefit of a light, airy, dry atmos- 

 phere. This cannot be accomplished so well in a 

 structure which has fruit in various stages of growth 

 upon plants turned out as it could with plants in pots. 



