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doubtless better than drying them, as is sometimes 

 practised. Pots proportioned to the size of the sucker 

 or crown are best, namely, for small suckers, forty- 

 eights ; for ordinary sized suckers, thirty-twos ; and for 

 large ones, twenty-fours. It is good, at whatever season 

 this potting is done, to plunge the pots containing the 

 plants into a good lively bottom-heat of, say, 100 

 degs., with 70 degs. of top heat. Those who require 

 ripe fruit every month in the year, will do well to 

 plant suckers as often, there being on all suckers that 

 are perfect, a quantity of embryo roots formed at the 

 base, so that they may be detached from the parent, 

 without risk, at any season ; and if planted as advised, 

 they will make roots freely ; and if they do so, in 

 either of the three months of winter, namely, Novem- 

 ber, December, or January, it will be best to raise the 

 pots a little, so as to let them have at their roots about 

 80 degs. of heat, and at the top from 55 to 60 degs. 

 of heat, with a good quantity of air ; and when they 

 have filled their pots with roots, that is, when the 

 roots are sufficiently extended to prevent the earth 

 falling from them on being turned out of the pots, 

 the plant is in a good state to be placed in a larger 

 pot. It is a bad practice to allow the roots to grow 

 too long against the sides of the pot, as such roots 

 frequently rot when the plant is placed in a larger pot. 

 A pine plant may be shifted into a larger pot, at any 

 season of the year, to its advantage, except during the 



