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water, while the cold is still running in at bottom 

 from a cistern placed aloft, with ball-cock. They 

 have also, close at hand, cocks in every structure to 

 supply abundance of cold water ; so convenient, in 

 some cases, that both hot and cold may be introduced 

 in the same water-pot, or interior cistern, at one and 

 the same time. 



There is not the least danger in watering the plants 

 plentifully all over their leaves in winter, or in any 

 time of the year, provided there be a sufficient heat 

 kept up in the tan bed and in the air of the house. 

 But w^atering the pine apple plants all over their leaves 

 in winter is not to be adopted as a general rule, but 

 only when it is necessary for cleansing the plants, and 

 when done the heat in the house among the plants 

 must be kept not lower than 70 in the morning, and 

 raised to 85 or 90 degs. in the course of the day. 

 (M'Phail.) Indeed so far should the gardener be 

 from withholding water from the pine apple in winter, 

 that it is absolutely very necessary in severe vreather, 

 at all times when strong fires are required, to give small 

 quantities of water, once in two or three days, ac- 

 cording as the plants may appear dry, in which state 

 they should not be allowed to remain ; care being 

 taken not to give a great quantity of water at any one 

 time, particularly in winter. (Mills on Pine Apple, 

 19.) 



Indiscriminate watering, or an application of it at 



