Sept.] THE HOT-HOUSE. 509 
When you have every thing in readiness, dress the plants, by 
picking oft' all decayed leaves, and especially those which are annoy- 
ed with insects, cut away all awkward and ill placed branches, and 
give each pot a fresh top dressing of suitable compost, then plunge 
the whole to their rims in the bark-pit, placing the smallest in front 
and the tallest behind. The succulent sorts and such as you have 
not room for in the pit, may be set on shelves arranged over the 
flues, &c. 
Now the plants being in order and placed in their winter quar- 
ters, it will be of much importance to give them plenty of air every 
favourable day, by sliding open the upright glasses, and also the 
roof lights, if necessary, in order to prevent their being drawn up 
too tender before winter; for the fresh bottom heat will give 
new action to the plants, and render abundance of air the more neces- 
rary; observe, however, to close the lights every evening when the 
house is tolerably warm, and to open them as early in the morning 
as you find the thermometer up to 60 degress of Fahrenheit. 
It is scarcely necessary to mention that every plant must have a 
due supply of water from time to time, according to its nature and 
necessity. 
Pine-Apples. 
Succession pine plants which are expected to produce fruit next 
year, may in the first week of this month, if omitted in July and 
August, be shifted as directed; but on no account should this 
be delayed longer. Where it had been done in the preceding 
months, and at that time no fresh tan added, it will now be neces- 
sary to examine the heat of the bark-bed in the succession house, 
wherein the plants in general are plunged, and if you find it very 
weak fork up the tan to the bottom and plunge the pots again imme- 
diately to their rims. 
This will revive the heat of the bed, and continue it in a due 
temperature till next month, when the plants must be removed 
into the fruiting-house and plunged in a bed made wholly of new 
tan. 
The younger succession pines, intended to succeed those, if not 
lately done, should not be shifted into larger pots, the tan forked up, 
and the pots replunged immediately, after having received a little 
water. 
Crowns and Suckers. 
The crowns and suckers of this year's production, will require a 
brisk bottom heat, to enable the plants to make good roots before 
winter: therefore, examine the bed and if it is declined in heat fork 
it up and replunge the pots immediately; but if these were placed 
on a dung hot-bed it may be necessary to renew the heat by a lin- 
ing of fresh hot dung applied to the sides, or to the sides and ends; 
or if the bed is much sunk, to work it up afresh, adding some new 
dung thereto, laying on the top, as before, several inches of light 
earth or tan, in which to plunge the pots. After this it will be 
necessary to give a considerable portion of air to the plants, and to 
