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GROWING till they are large enough to eruit. If, therefore, your 
bottom-heat is 90°, or near it, all will be right. 
In one month, on turning the earth out of the pots, you will find 
they are rooting freely ; strong white roots will be seen interlacing 
themselves through the soil and coiling round the ball of earth. In six 
weeks they will require shifting into larger pots. Our good old- 
fashioned Pine-growers would have been startled when advised to pot 
young Pines in September or October—just, they would observe, as they 
are going to rest. Now, as before observed, I don’t want them to rest 
at all. My object is to keep them growing as long as I can, for resting 
Pine plants for five or six months in the year may be likened to farmers 
who used to give their land a fallow every third year ; but who thinks 
of that now ? So Pines do not require rest till they are large enough 
to fruit. 
The plants will now take 7 or 8-inch pots, and although they might 
be well kept in the frame even during winter, a low pit with a hot- 
water pipe running round it, to help them in very severe weather, will 
be much better and less trouble to manage. I am supposing there are 
dung linings round the bed, and that the hot-water pipes need only be 
used to dry up damp and keep up the temperature when the linings 
are not sufficient of themselves. If the pit is solely dependant on the 
hot-water pipes for supplying heat, the application of fire-heat must 
commence when the top-heat of the pit falls below 65° by night. Of 
course a bottom-heat of either well prepared leaves or tan must have 
been got ready'and worked up to the usual temperature of 90°, and 
the plants will require plunging wider apart, and brought up as near 
the glass as recomm.ended above. If the suckers were strong and 
bushy, a foot apart, plant from plant, will not be too much. 
Take care the glass is clean, to admit all the light possible, and that 
it is also in good repair, to prevent any dripping inside, which falling 
into the hearts of the plants would injure them, and perhaps rot them 
entirely. We are now in November, and if the weather is mild and 
sunny, a deal of air must be given, as the plants will grow very fast. 
The day temperature may be kept down to 80° in sunshine, and 65° 
by night, closing by four in the afternoon, giving air very early, and 
increasing it according to the state of the weather. 
If dung linings are used solely for keeping up the heat, these must 
be attended to, and during long-continued wet or dull weather, fire 
applied to warm the pipes, to dry the internal air; this will be more 
necessary, however, in December than earlier in the year. A covering 
of mats, felt, or some such material must be applied, to maintain the 
required night temperature of 65°. 
STOKE NEWINGTON CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW. 
The Eleventh Annual Meeting of this Society was held on the I7th 
and I8th ult., in the Manor Rooms, as heretofore. The arrangement 
of the tables was a great improvement over that of former years, and 
reflects greatly to the credit of Mr. Rhodes, one of the committee, by 
