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of the year ; they should also be liberally supplied with water 

 at their roots, and be frequently sprinkled over head with clear 

 water, to refresh their leaves. 



Most of the generally cultivated pines, however, are found 

 not to succeed so well, if brought into fruit at so early a sea- 

 son. Where pines are cultivated upon an extensive scale, it is 

 better to have separate fruiting-houses, and indeed succession- 

 houses for the different sorts, that will swell their fruit in win- 

 ter, and also for such as fruit at a more advanced season. 

 Small houses, therefore, have this important advantage over 

 large ones, that the crops, of whatever kinds they may be, 

 can be brought into fruit in regular succession, which cannot 

 be done so well in houses of more capacious dimensions, where 

 the inhabitants require a very different treatment, particularly 

 as regards temperature. 



Thus, if a separate fruiting-house was appropriated to 

 QueenSi and some of their nearest associates, they might be 

 fruited in nine months, or even twelve months, less time, than 

 those that are generally by gardeners denominated black pines, 

 which include the larger growing sorts, such as the New Pro- 

 videnccy Globe, Black Antigua, and Enville, which require 

 three or four years' cultivation, and upwards, to bring them to 

 due perfection, and which, when gi'own to the amazing weight 

 of ten or twelve pounds, may well deserve a separate house for 

 their reception. 



It not unfrequcntly happens that a quantity of water lodges 

 m the hearts of pine-plants, either from the rain or melted 

 snow finding its way through the sashes, in consequence of 

 bad glazing, or not being in a proper state of repair, and often 

 from the excess of watering over head, assisted also by the 

 condensation of steam falling into them from the glass. When 

 this is observed, particularly during winter and autumn, it 

 should be drawn out by the syringe made for the purpose, and 

 which can be purchased of any respectable nurseryman, or 

 may be made by any ordinary intelligent tin-smith; or, in 

 want of such an instrument, many cultivators use a small tin 

 tube, one end of which they introduce between the leaves of 

 the plants, and draw the water out by sucking it up with their 

 mouths. 



