June,] 



THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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JUNE. 



NURSERY AND SUCCESSION PINE-PLANTS. 



During this month the young pine-plants will require liberal 

 supplies of water and air, all of which will promote the growth 

 of the plants. It may, however, be necessary to shift some 

 of the plants into larger pots, that is, such as may have been 

 marked out at the last shifting, and which were not then im- 

 mediately in want of that assistance ; as also to pot any of the 

 crowns or suckers that may now be sufficiently rooted either 

 in the front of the nursing-pit or in the frames, where the 

 young plants of that description may have been placed, both 

 to enjoy the advantage of light and room, and to afford the 

 same advantage to such as are more forward in growth in the 

 nursing or succession-pits. These frames should be kept up, 

 by means of linings and renewing the beds occasionally, to 

 the same temperature as recommended for the nursing-pit; 

 and their general management must also be the same, only 

 such of them as may have been planted out into decomposed 

 leates or rotten tan, will not require so much water, and it is 

 essentially necessary to guard against too much rank steam, 

 which would here produce a disposition in them to rot at the 

 heart. Watch-sticks should be placed in the fi-ames, and 

 often examined, particularly after renewing the beds or apply- 

 ing fresh linings, as the roots, not being in pots, will be more 

 liable to be injured by too much bottom heat. As the plants 

 in these frames become sufficiently rooted, let them be potted 

 in small pots, according to their size, and plunged again ; they 

 will then be in fit order in autumn to take their places in the 

 nursing-pits, when such as are there at this time will have 

 been removed to the succession ones. 



