MANAGEMENT OF THE 



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will require another revival after the foregoing 

 instructions, in order to forward the fruit and 

 cause it to swell as it arrives to maturity ; the 

 size of the fruit being one of its chief recom- 

 mendatory properties, and much depends on the 

 care, attention, and skill, which the fruiting 

 department receives during the time the pines 

 are swelling. 



The bark beds for the succession plants will 

 also require similar treatment to keep them 

 always in a kindly growing state ; the bottom 

 heat never should be allowed to become too 

 much reduced for any continuance, as that 

 would cause the plants to become stunted, there- 

 fore a regular lively bottom heat is highly 

 necessary at those seasons: and as the young 

 plants will require shifting in the spring, the 

 revival of the bark bed may be attended to at 

 the same time. The beds, after the fore^oingr 

 management, will not require further attention 

 in this way until July or August, unless the 

 heat should sooner decline, which, through 

 inferior bark and other causes, it will sometimes 

 do ; then fork up the bark, and about the 



