THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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FEBRUxVRY. 



SUCCESSION AND NURSING PINE-PLANTS. 



The general management of both these divisions of the 

 pinery are, at this period of the year so similar, that it may 

 be sufBcicnt for us to say, that the temperature of both should 

 be kept up to the same as directed last month, and that air 

 and water should now be more liberally given. No opportu- 

 nity of good weather should be lost sight of at this season, 

 when air can be given, which will strengthen the plants, and 

 prevent them drawing up weak, and assuming a sickly yellow 

 color, which they are apt to do when long shut up in a close 

 atmosphere. 



Healthy plants will now be beginning to make roots, and 

 therefore should be supplied with water once every six or eight 

 days, or rather as often as they appear to be dry. We have 

 already more than once alluded to the mistaken practice of 

 watering at stated periods; no such plan should ever be pursued, 

 as some plants require water often, and others more seldom, 

 even in the same pit, this depending generally upon the healthy 

 or unhealthy state of the plants. 



FRUITING PINE-PLANTS. 



It may be found necessary, about the beginning or towards 

 the middle of the month, to turn over tlie bark or leaf-bed, 

 the heat having probably declined considerably ; and it may 

 also be necessary to add a portion of fresh tan, or leaves, to 

 set the whole in a state of fermentation again. In adding 

 frcsli bark or leaves, it should be always observed to trench 

 the bed up from the bottom ; and in mixing the materials, 

 care must be taken to keep the fresh matter next the bottom, 

 or at least not near the top; a sufficient quantity of the old 

 halt-decayed matter should be brought up to the surface, in 

 wliich to plunge the pots. The plants should be examined 



