Aug.] the HOT-HOUSE. 475 
Besides the watering of the pine plants in the common way, it 
will be of great service to them, in very warm weather, to water 
the walks and flues of the Hot-house occasionally: this should al- 
ways be done late in the evening, and the glasses ought to be im- 
mediately closed. The great heat of the house will exhale the 
moisture, and raise a kind of artificial dew, which will soon stand in 
drops on the glasses; the leaves of the pine being succulent, they 
will imbibe the watry particles, and be greatly benefited thereby. 
Raising the Pine from Seed. 
New varieties of the Pine may be obtained from seeds, and when 
such is found in the fruit, which is very uncommon, even in the 
West-Indies, they should be carefully preserved in dry sand till 
March, when they will vegetate and succeed better than if sown 
at an earlier period. The pots for this purpose should be then filled 
to within an inch of their rims, with light rich earth, and plunged 
into a warm part of the tan-bed, for a day or two before sowing the 
seeds, which should be placed therein about an inch apart, and co- 
vered not more than a quarter of an inch deep. Cover the pots 
immediately with pieces of glass that will fit the tops very close; 
this by preventing the mould from drying and giving an additional 
heat to it near the surface, will soon cause the seeds to vegetate. 
After the plants appear, sprinkle them over with water occasionally; 
as they advance in size, give them increased portions of air and wa- 
ter, and by the time they have five or six leaves, they will be able to 
withstand the general air of the Hot-house. 
By the end of August these seedlings will be grown to a proper 
size for transplanting; when they should be put into small pots, 
filled with the same mould recommended for crowns and suckers 
in page 454; and from that time their treatment requires no differ- 
ence from that of those. 
Shifting the various Exotics, S^c. 
The beginning of this month is a very proper season for the 
shifting of Aloes, Sedums, Cactuses, Mesembryanthemums, and all 
other succulent exotics; they will now take fresh root sooner than 
at any other time of the year: you should at the same time take ofT 
any offsets that may be produced, and plant them into small pots 
filled with fresh sandy earth, placing them where they may have 
only the morning sun for ten or twelve days, and observing to re- 
fresh them, now and then, with a little water. 
The several kinds of tender exotics that require it, should now 
be shifted, in order to establish strong and fresh roots before winter; 
observing to place them in the shade immediately after, till they 
shall have recovered the check occasioned by the removal. This 
work should be performed early in the month; for if they are shift- 
ed too late in the season, they do not recover before the cold comes 
on, which checks their growth, prevents their free rooting, and 
consequently, renders them not so well prepared to maintain them- 
