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EXTRACTS.—HORTICULTURE. 
EXTRACTS. 
HORTICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Culture or the Pine-Apple. —To grow this exotic to perfection, it is ne¬ 
cessary to protect it from the severity of the climate all the year; and that mode 
of protection is best which admits the greatest quantity of light. The two most 
frequent evils in growing pines, are keeping them in too hot a pit, and suffering 
the soil in the pots to become too dry. Too great a heat from the bark must be 
avoided by a regular supply of fresh bark to the front and back of the pit, so as 
to prevent the necessity of adding a large quantity at the time of shifting the 
pines, by riddling the earthy part out of the old bark, and mixing the old and 
new well together, to prevent excessive fermentation. The bark heat is too great 
if it be above 100 degrees, Fahr. The heat may be checked by pouring water on 
the bed, by piercing perpendicular holes with a strong smooth rod of considera¬ 
ble thickness, by keeping the houses cooler than usual, and by a more free 
admission of air. If the temperature in any day rise to 80 deg. inside, the 
pines in fruit may safely be syringed over the whole herb, three, four, or in hot 
weather, six days in the week. At any time of the year, if there be plenty of sun¬ 
shine, these plants may be syringed. The succession plants also may be syringed 
regularly from March to September. During this operation, and on days when 
the syringe is not employed, keep up a considerable degree of moisture in the 
internal air, by pouring water on the flues. The onty point to be attended to, 
is, to see that, either by sunshine or artificial heat, the seeming excess of water is 
evaporated. Give water to the roots, as soon as the surface of the soil in the 
pots appears dry, which may be about once a week; give the most water to the 
White Providence, Enville, and Queen’s, and less to the Antigua, Havannah, and 
Montserrat kinds. The quantity given to each plant, must be left to the discre¬ 
tion of the gardener, who has the charge of them. Give quite as much more in 
summer as in winter. The water used should be as rich as possible, by mixing 
with it the richest manure, such as hen dung and soot; this is to be used from 
March to September, and once or twice in October, to pine plants of every age. 
The temperature of the water when given must be 90 degrees. Cease watering, 
either by the syringe or at the root, as soon as the fruit begins to change for 
ripening. It is always an object to keep all the plants “ sloivly growing at all 
seasons of the year” 
Take off no roots at any time, but such as have become dead ; and attend 
particularly to draining the soil in the pots, by placing at the bottom of each 
pot some clean river gravel, cleared from all sand; and upon this put a little 
moss, to prevent the soil from washing down and filling up this draining. The 
soil should be as open as possible, consisting of rotten sods and vegetable mould, 
in a decaying state, formed of small sticks, leaves, &.C., and well rotted cow-dung 
in equal parts, with one-tenth of ground bones mixed together when wanted. 
There is reason to think coagulated blood may be used to give increased richness 
to the soil, with benefit. A frequent and injurious practice is placing the plants 
too thick in the bed, and by that means preventing their regular expansion and 
free growth in their natural form. In the succession home , let the back row, be 
more than a yard asunder, and let them gradually diminish in distance to the 
