House and Garden 
and this should be done by an experi¬ 
enced gardener accustomed to growing 
and potting heaths and New Holland 
plants. In the process of repotting a 
portion of the old soil should be removed 
from round the edges and bottom, and 
the thin old roots pruned. See to the 
crocking, so as to insure good drainage, 
and spread at the bottom of the pan or 
vase some good turfy loam; then drop 
the plant carefully in, filling up with 
good turfy loam round the sides. The 
plants should be firmly potted and well 
rammed round the edges to prevent 
the escape of water, which should 
soak through the whole of the ball of 
soil. 
Where the pans are very shallow it is 
advisable to replace a portion of the old 
soil each spring with some good turfy 
loam and leaf soil. After a few years 
it may be found advisable to shift the 
trees into larger vases or pans, but as the 
great object is to keep them dwarf, 
the smaller the vase or pan used the 
better. 
These forest trees are capable of grow¬ 
ing to a great size, and they can only be 
kept in their “Tom Thumb” condition 
by discouraging growth. To main¬ 
tain this dwarf stature pinch back the 
young growth from April to June with 
the thumb and finger. In the case of 
the thujas and other coniferae (except 
pines) pinch out the points of the young 
growth all over the plants so as to keep 
the desired shape. In the case of the 
pines pinch out only the irregular 
growths. Maples should be pinched 
back to two or four leaves on each 
shoot .—'Journal of Horticulture. 
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INDEED, the civil engineer seems 
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would be absolutely ruinous in others, 
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