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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



partmcnt, it will be necessary that they should be exaraiiica 

 as to their want of shifting into larger pots, &c. The direc- 

 tions regarding potting, already given, both as to the mode of 

 performing the operation, as well as the sizes of the pots 

 being kept in view, we need not dwell longer upon that sub- 

 ject, only so fiir as to say,, that the largest sized plants will 

 require pots from twelve to fifteen inches in diameter, and the 

 less strong, proportionably smaller. The pots we would re- 

 commend for pines are rather ditlerent from those in common 

 use, being not so deep in proportion to their diameters as the 

 pots usually used. We would prefer pots whose depth cor- 

 respond nearly with their diameter, as being much less likely 

 to risk the burning of the roots of the plants. 



The plants being potted, and a little water given to settle 

 the mould about their roots, let them be plunged into the bed 

 about three parts of their depth, for fear of too much bottom- 

 heat ; which, if permitted at this time, while the plants have 

 been checked by being repotted, would be liable to start them 

 into fruit, which, at this season, would be far fiom a desirable 

 circumstance. After they have thus stood for some time, till 

 the violent heat of the bed may have subsided, they may then 

 be fully plunged up to their rims, observing that, in so doing, 

 to set the pots level, and to endeavour to keep them so, by 

 pressing the leaves or tan tightly round^them on all sides. 

 The plants should be allowed as much room as possible, not 

 less than eighteen inches from the centre of one pot to that 

 of the next; when they are all phniged, give thera a little 

 water, which repeat more freely when the heat has come up. 

 It will be also necessary, after the house has been regulated 

 and cleared out, to give the plants a good washing over-head 

 with the syringe, to clean them of any dust that may have 

 fallen upon them during their removal and potting. After the 

 heat in the bed has come to its full height, watering must be 

 attended to forthwith, in a regular and moderate quantity. 

 The plants must now be kept going on in a steady genial 

 growing heat, supplied with plenty of air when the sunshine 

 is powerful enough to raise the temperature above 80°, which 

 point it should seldom exceed, but be regulated from that to 

 75° in the day, and from 65° to 68° during the night This 



