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FLAN OF A FINE-PIT. 
below where the buds have grown. These lower buds will then 
break and show fruit, which will ripen in August. Both these 
methods answer very well. 
To secure a constant supply of fine fruit, it will be necessary to 
change the ground, and it must be prepared as before, for the old 
stools will not continue to bear well for more than eight years. 
When the old stools are six years old, plant the new plantation, 
which will then be in full bearing by the time the others are des¬ 
troyed. You may greatly assist the growth of the young stems, 
which are to bear fruit the succeeding season, by cutting down to the 
ground the canes of the former season, as soon as they have done 
bearing, instead of allowing them to stand till winter or spring, the 
usual time of pruning. The young shoots are thus encouraged in 
their growth, and become well ripened. 
Forcing Raspberries .—Take up some fine young plants, two 
years old, and place them in large pots filled with strong rich loam. 
About the beginning of November, set them in a warm sheltered si¬ 
tuation, and if in the following month the weather be very severe, 
cover all the pots with littery dung, to prevent the frost from break¬ 
ing them, or injuring the roots of the plants. In January, introduce 
them either into a peach-house or vinery, when they begin to grow, 
giving them as much air as they can conveniently receive, and let 
them have sufficient water, sprinkling it sometimes over the whole 
plant with a syringe. Thus treated, they will produce ripe fruit in 
April. 
ARTICLE IV.—PLAN OF A PINE-PIT. 
BY T. J. KNOWLYS, ESQ. 
The former Figures, page 12, being cut contrary to the intention of the writer. 
Having been some months from home, your numbers have not 
reached me regularly. 
I observe some mistakes in the drawing of a pine-pit, which I 
sent you for your January number. The mistakes are of such a na¬ 
ture that a person might as easily raise jelly fish as pine-apples in a 
pit of that construction. I send you a corrected drawing. The chief 
fault is that the steam from the hot manure is made to enter the in¬ 
ner pit, which would have the effect of rotting the pines. It is the 
hot chamber surrounding the inner pit which keeps up the required 
heat. 
