186 STRING MANAGEMENT OF PINES. 



season, when the plants and fruit are advancing 

 in growth, it is very requisite to keep the house 

 in as regular a temperature as possible. 



About March or April, it is of great advantage 

 to the fruiting plants to draw out some of the old 

 mould from the top of the pots, and fill them up 

 with fresh earth or compost. It will promote a 

 free growth in the plants, and prove very bene- 

 ficial to the fruit. 



SUMMER MANAGEMENT OF PINES. 



Par. 19. — The latter part of the spring treat- 

 ment must necessarily run into the summer 

 management of the pines ; generally, therefore, 

 about May, the extra heat, whether by fire, hot 

 water, or steam, with which the pinery is heated, 

 may be discontinued until October ; yet the bark 

 bed must be supported with a lively bottom heat, 

 as before directed, which, after being made up 

 properly in the spring, the bark bed will gene- 

 rally produce a tolerable heat till August ; but 

 should the heat have greatly declined, about June 

 the beds may be forked up, and a small quantity 

 of fresh bark added, forking it up only about half 



