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To ascertain this point decisively, he filled four 

 vessels with hot water. The water in the first vessel 

 was 130 degrees hot, that in the second 140, that in 

 the third 150, and that in the fourth 160. Into each 

 these vessels he put a few pine plants, divested of 

 their fibrous roots, and suffered them to remain in 

 the water about an hour. The plants which had 

 been immersed in the water heated to 140 and 150 

 degrees, were a little hurt at the extremities of 

 their leaves, but after being dried in the hothouse, 

 they were planted, and grew as vigorous as if they 

 had not been put into hot water ; the plants put into 

 water 130 degrees warm were not in the least injured; 

 but those put into water heated to 160 degrees were 

 entirely destroyed. (M'Phail.) 



Another excellent authority, one very conversant 

 with the capabilities and habits of the pine apple, 

 Mr. Mills, gardener to Baroness Rothschild, at Gun- 

 nersbury Park, quite agrees with us on these points, 

 observing that the pine apple is by no means the ten- 

 der plant that it is by many supposed to be. It will 

 live, if kept moderately dry, in the low temperature 

 of 34 degs. ; still it is not advisable to keep it so 

 cold any length of time, and it requires from 45 to 

 50 degs. during the months of November, December, 

 and January, in which temperature young plants will 

 progress that are not intended to fruit the following 

 summer ; and even for these, the temperature may 



