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ON GROWING PINE APPLES WITHOUT POTS. 
matured Grapes; many of the bunches were as fine as I ever saw 
any upon a Purple Constantia, I have just commenced forcing some 
of those which I coiled last season, and I expect fine crops from them. 
ARTICLE III. 
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ON GROWING PINE APPLES WITHOUT POTS. 
BY MR. W. BROWN, JUN. 
The practice of turning the Pine Plants out of the Pots into the 
bark bed; is well worth the notice of the horticulturist, being, in my 
judgment, preferable in some points to the method of growing them 
in pots. I observe it has been practised by Mr. Mitchinson, with 
the best success. 
In properly erected pits, the Pine, if well managed, will perforin 
its functions satisfactorily in all seasons of the year; on the other 
hand, though the care be never so great, and the treatment never so 
good, if the pits or houses are not well constructed, the fruit will 
neither be fine nor good. 
.Light, air, and a good supply of heat, are requisites indispensable 
to the well-being of pines; and although too much light at certain 
seasons of the year is injurious, yet at those times the plants may be 
readily shaded, whereas, if the houses are dark, nothing will supply 
the want of light. 
In reference to planting pine plants in the bark bed, their spongio- 
lets are at perfect liberty either to rise towards the surface, or run in 
any other direction, where they can obtain the most nutriment. I 
will now state an experiment made with a green plant, it was not a 
fine or strong one, it had not shewn fruit, and was one year and a 
half old, I turned it out into the bark bed, the latter end of last 
March, (1834), it grew a little, and then began to shew fruit, appar¬ 
ently like the others of the same kind; but I observed that it was a 
longer period in flowering and ripening its fruit, than those in pots, I 
think a full month later, and made a much better fruit than any of 
them. I think this is worthy of notice, for it frequently occurs that 
the greater part of the best plants, show fruit too early occasionally 
even some months. 
We are not at a loss for means to push them into fruit at a certain 
time, but there is more difficulty in successfully keeping them back 
until a certain time; for the former, Griffin recommends giving them 
only one-half the supply o( water, for the latter—placing the plants 
