Nov.] 



THE FORCING GARDEN. 



779 



NOVEMBER. 



NURSING PINE-PLANTS. 



Winter will now be fast approaching, and an opportunity 

 for making up the beds sufficiently strong to last till February 

 or March, may not occur after the beginning or middle of this 

 month. It is therefore necessary that every department of 

 the pine-pits should be substantially made up to last till that 

 time. 



Make choice of fine weather, the benefit of which should 

 never be lost, whenever a general arrangement is going on in 

 these departments. Proceed to remove the plants as before 

 directed, by having them carefully taken out of the bed, tied 

 up, and such as may be in want of support from standing 

 loose in the pots, supported with neat sticks. The plants will 

 not now require a general shifting, neither do we think that a 

 general shifting should ever take place, unless rendered neces- 

 sary by some unforeseen event, which does not often occur ; 

 but the plants should be shifted as they may individually re- 

 quire it ; thus they should be examined every time that they 

 are taken out of the bed, for the purpose of having it renewed. 

 Such only, therefore, as seem to be in want, should be shifted, 

 and at this time it should be performed with care, so as not 

 to injure the roots nor destroy the balls, unless they be hard, 

 or the roots much matted or decayed ; in such cases, the balls 

 should be gently broken, the roots separated, and all decayed 

 «nes removed, and then repotted into pots corresponding to 

 the size of the plants. If the roots be much injured at this 

 season, there is little chance of their forming new ones till the 

 spring ; therefore, it is of little consequence whether the old 

 decayed roots remain attached to them among the few good 

 ones they may chance to have, and which may be able to sup- 

 port them till the spring, or whether they may be cut out ; which, 

 however, cannot be well done without in some degree injuring 



