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front row, where they should average eighteen inches asunder. Use deep pots, 
and have them, as much as possible, plunged quite up to the rims. The best 
pines in the last potting may be left unfilled up; and in the spring pull off a 
few of the lower leaves, remove part of the exhausted soil, and add about five 
inches of fresh compost, with a quart of bone-dust extra to each plant. Conti¬ 
nue due attention to every plant till it has perfected its fruit; never huddling 
any plants together, under the idea that they will fruit off just as well. Never 
admit any air into the fruiting-house, until the thermometer indicates 80 degs. 
The succession houses having vines in them, must, of course, have air to suit 
them, which is generally such as suits the pines also. During bright sunshine, 
keep the walks always wet. It is of importance to have two fruiting-houses; 
one for plants in fruit for winter, and the other for those of summer. By keep¬ 
ing them separate, the plants in fruit, especially in winter, can be properly 
syringed, watered, and kept at a higher temperature than would be prudent if 
they were mixed with those intended to fruit the spring following.— Thos. 
Appleby.— Gard. Mag. 
Remedy for Fruit-Trees casting their Fruit. —It is well known that 
although some trees both of peach, apricot, plum, apple, &c. are well furnished 
with blossom-buds, the blossoms often fail in their impregnation, and fall off; 
and when they are impregnated and set, they fall off at the stoning. Frequently, 
although they survive the stoning, they become prematurely ripe and fall off, and 
very few, if any, of the fruit attain maturity, while those which do ripen become 
vapid and have no flavour. These failures have been proved to arise from un¬ 
wholesome food, a remedy for which may be found by the following method : 
Having selected a tree that is in good condition, and well furnished with blos¬ 
som-buds, just as the blossoms are beginning to expand, take a potatoe-fork, and 
with it make holes all over the surface of the space occupied by the roots (which 
extends as far from the stem as the branches) at about eighteen inches apart, 
forcing in the fork to the full depth of the tines, and giving it a gentle heave, 
by pressing on the end of the handle; then, having dissolved some nitre in wa¬ 
ter, in the proportion of one ounce to three gallons of water, fill the holes with 
the solution. No manure must be given ; but if, after the stoning of the fruit, 
the tree should appear unable to sustain its crop of fruit, the following prepa¬ 
ration may be given, in the same manner as the nitre:—To one gallon of blood 
add one gallon of water, and one ounce of potash ; stir the mixture well, and let 
it stand for a week or ten days ; then pour off the solution from the clot, and, 
mixing one gallon of this liquid with four gallons of water, give it to the trees as 
above. The remaining clot may be dissolved by adding to it one quart of 
slacked lime, and one gallon of water to one gallon of clot; but this solution 
must not be given to fruit-trees, as it will produce the effect which the nitre is 
intended to remedy. It will, however, prove a good manure for the cabbage 
tribe, asparagus, celery, &,c.— Joseph Hayward. — Gard. Mag. 
Uselessness of Earthing up Potatoes. —By drawing up the earth over 
the potatoe, in sloping ridges, it is deprived of its due supply of moisture by 
rains ; for when they fall, the water is cast into the ditches. Further, in regard 
to the idea, that by thus earthing up the number of tubers is increased, the ef¬ 
fect is quite the reverse; for experience proves, that a potatoe placed an inch 
only under the surface of the earth, will produce more tubers than one planted 
at the depth of a foot.— Joseph Hayward.— Gard. Mag. 
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