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built, in which they yield their fruit and ofifspring, 

 die, and give place to the next grade of successors. 

 For the second and more numerous division of the 

 stock of plants, there are also appropriate buildings, 

 called succession houses. In these the second class 

 of plants are cultivated, till they are fit to be re- 

 moved to the fruiting house. The lowest order of 

 plants are the young crowns and suckers of small 

 size, and which are usually kept in frames on dung 

 hot-beds. 



From this account of the buildings and disposition 

 of a stock of pine apple plants, the reader will easily 

 perceive how they are forwarded from small to full- 

 sized plants, and also how the different grades suc- 

 ceed each other in the different buildings erected for 

 them. The grand object of the manager is to have, 

 in the month of October in every year, as many full- 

 sized plants as will completely fill the fruiting-house ; 

 for in that month the plants are shifted for the last 

 time, and then are placed in their final stations. 



Some former and able pine growers, particularly 

 the early distinguished James Justice, Esq., of 

 Creighton near Edinburgh, endeavoured to combine 

 all the necessary buildings in one, by having what 

 was called a double house ; that is, a house of great 

 width, the roof extending over two bark pits ; that 

 in front intended for succession, and the back one 

 for the fruiting plants. This was imitated by 

 Speechley at Welbec, and with great success. But 

 it is generally found, that such large houses are not 



