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CULTURE OF MANGOES &<y. 
ARTICLE V. 
CULTURE OF MANGOES AND OTHER TROPICAL FRUITS. 
BY MR. R. FORBES, 
Gardener to the Right Honourable Lord Powis , Walcot. 
The soil I use for Mangoes, &c. is good loam from a rich old pasture, 
well prepared by frequent turnings and mixed as follows :—Two bar- 
rowsful of loam, one barrow of well rotted vegetable leaf soil, from 
three to four years old, three parts of a barrow of pure river sand, 
and three parts of a barrow of sheep dung well decomposed. This 
soil is not sifted, but beat and broken and well mixed until it has 
become pretty fine. 
The Mangoes at Walcot are not planted out, but are grown in pots 
and tubs, we give them no bottom heat, nor do I think it would be 
in any wise beneficial to them, except under circumstances, when 
plants are sickly, and you wish to increase their roots. 
Mangoes, when well established and in a fit state for bearing, ought 
to be kept in a house by themselves, as I find by experience, that they 
do not require so much heat in winter as most other tropical plants. 
I recommend to keep them from November to the second week in 
February in a temperature of from 50 to 55 degrees by fire heat, and 
not higher than 60 degrees by the influence of the sun, otherwise 
they are liable to break out into flower too soon, before our long dark 
nights are past, which will prevent the fruit setting and doing well. 
When in flower, air ought to be admitted freely, and the thermometer 
kept as steadily as possible from 60 to 65 degrees bv fire heat, and 
70 to 75 degrees in sunshine. 
November 15 th, 1834. 
ARTICLE VI. 
PLAN AND DESCRIPTION OF SOME PINE AND MELON PITS, 
Erected at Byromc , near Ferry Bridge , Yorkshire. 
COMMUNICATED BY MR. J. TINKER. 
Inclosed is a rough sketch of my pine and melon pits, they an¬ 
swer well for either purposes, I used to heat them with dung linings, 
which caused endless of labour and dirt, besides sometimes injuring 
one or two of lhy back rows of plants owing to heat. You are well 
aware, I have no doubt, that a little lively heat applied to the bark 
bed causes it to heat violently in a short time, particularly a dung 
