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they did not suffer as much by the swampiness and 

 sourness of the plunging material — besides, what 

 system of regulation could be commanded under such 

 circumstances, besides the extra loss of labour and 

 sacrifice of property ? No wonder at pine apples 

 being considered annual-rooted plants under such an 

 entirety of unnatural application of bottom heat — 

 no wonder at Mr. Glendinning stating, that in the 

 winter months the young plants must be kept 

 stationary, or nearly so — no wonder, indeed, if they 

 were to stand stationary, under such circumstances, 

 when it was recommended to apply in autumn an ex- 

 tra supply of hot tan to carry them through the win- 

 ter months, and deprive them at a certain time in 

 spring of their roots ; needful operations enough, no 

 one could deny, under such unnatural treatment and 

 circumstances. Thousands of pine plants in those 

 days were forced and driven along with their long, 

 narrow, thin leaves, with no other live roots to them 

 during their whole existence, than the few they con- 

 tinued to form, as a matter of necessity, in the axils 

 of the leaves ; and if they then had been subject to 

 the liberal airings and free ventilation we keep in 

 practice, they would have been blown out of their 

 pots. No wonder that shading should be recom- 

 mended and adopted to such an extent in those days by 

 the great pine cultivators — no wonder, indeed ! But 

 on this we shall observe more fully in our next volume. 



