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lowness of temperature not sufficient for ripening the 

 fruit. At the same time, we must observe that, it is 

 quite possible to make the structure we are about to 

 describe quite efficient for cultivating the pine 

 throughout every stage of its growth, if just attention 

 be paid to ventilation. 



Opinions amongst practical men vary respecting a 

 fruiting pine structure, and we must acknowledge that, 

 up to this time, we have not seen the kind of struc- 

 ture which we should like to have for this most es- 

 sential part of pine culture. For convenience in wa- 

 tering, staking, removing plants, taking off suckers, 

 and economy throughout, supposing a pit was erected 

 8 feet in width, in the clear between the back and 

 front wall inside, this space would hold 4 rows of 

 first-rate plants ; the length, of course, must be regu- 

 lated according to the number of plants to be fruited 

 each season. If the entire pit be in length 100 feet, 

 divided into four 25 feet compartments, each would 

 hold 50 first-rate plants ; by this means, of course, each 

 compartment could be regulated as required at all 

 seasons with heat, air, water, &c. &c, thus ensuring 

 that great point, a succession of fruit. The walls 

 of the pit should be of 9 -inch work, but hollow, and 

 tied together, of course, in places with a cross brick or 

 bond timber. Throughout such a pit we would have 

 a tank or gutter introduced for furnishing the re- 

 quired bottom heat and humidity, and such tank or 



