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The north lights, which are about five feet long, will 

 extend over the back alley, under which the vines are 

 to be trained ; the lights must be tilted up above the 

 back wall when air is to be admitted. The materials 

 in which the pines are to be plunged, may be sand, 

 ashes, leaves, or tan ; but the latter two ought to be 

 preferred ; and the plants may be occasionally turned 

 out of their pots and planted therein. {Hamilton 

 on Fine Apple, 100.) 



Steam has been employed as a source of heating, 

 but is now nearly abandoned, as being more costly 

 and less effectual than hot water. The most wasteful 

 way in which it was employed was by turning it into 

 a bricked chamber beneath the bed ; but, whether in 

 a chamber or in pipes, it required much more atten- 

 tion than hot water needs, and with the disadvantage 

 that at night it cools too rapidly to exclude an in- 

 juriously low temperature. 



CULTURE. 



To succeed in producing a first-rate fruit, all atten- 

 dant circumstances must be accordant with each 

 other. It is not the procuring the soil from the same 

 locality that a successful cultivator does, that will 

 ensure success ; nor the harvesting of it, and taking 



