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plants when young, and indeed throughout all their 

 stages in pots (with the exception of soil), is very 

 much the same as in England. The suckers are 

 planted in August and September, and remain till 

 May in the pits of the lowest temperature, when 

 frames for the summer are prepared of dung and 

 chesnut or oak leaves, well mixed and sweetened, of 

 four feet thickness, which is found to retain a steady 

 bottom heat of 18 to 20 degs. of Reaumur (72 to 75 

 degs. Fahr.) for a much longer time than from dung 

 alone ; upon this is a bed of peat (sometimes mixed 

 with a few decayed leaves and black sand), about 

 eight inches deep, in which the young plants are set 

 at sufficient distance apart to allow for six months 5 

 growth. These frames are well protected by straw 

 mats at night, and as the summer advances air is 

 liberally given, and water as occasion may require. 

 Rapid progress under this treatment is soon appa- 

 rent ; here they remain till the end of September or 

 middle of October, when they are once more repotted, 

 in twenty-fours or sixteens, in pure peat, and placed 

 in the winter pits with a bottom-heat of 22 or 25 

 degs. of Reaumur (82 to 88 degs. Fahr.). In the 

 following May those which are to fruit in pots are 

 shifted into sixteens or twelves, while those for the 

 open ground are planted in the fruiting houses, the 

 soil of which is pure peat 9 or 10 inches deep ; the 

 bottom heat is now increased to 25 degs., and the air 

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