Suckers potted in August and early part of September will now grow freely, and will require to be well aired to prevent their drawing, especially if they are plunged rather thickly than otherwise. After the middle of this month the night temperature should not range higher than from 60° to 65°, according as the nights are cold or mild. The bottom-heat should be lowered to range from 75° to 80°. Should there be any fear of the largest and earliest of them becoming pot-bound before spring, it is better to give them a small shi:t, and give them a little more room between plants, than to allow them to be cramped in small pots. With the decline of sunshine and heat, the amount of moisture, both in the Boil and air, requires to be gradually reduced. Just keep the soil from becoming mealy dry. Succession plants, intended to fruit early next season, will now have well filled their pots with roots, and in other respects be in a well-matured condition, and must be kept in a state of comparative rest for the next three months. Drop the temperature to 60° at night by the end of the month, and the bottom-heat should be proportionately low - 75° to 80° is quite sufficient to keep the roots in good coudition.

When with sun-heat the day temperature exceeds 70°, give air to prevent it rising to an exciting degree. If the pots are plunged firmly to the rim, they will require very little water through the winter, and no more should be given than is necessary to prevent the soil from becoming dust-dry. Keep a moist atmosphere in pits or houses where fruit are swelling, and range the night temperature from 70° to 75°, according as the weather is mild or cold; and shut up the house early on the afternoons of fine days, running the temperature up to 85° for a time, and gently sprinkle the plant overhead every other day when the weather is bright. See that no check is allowed from want of water at the root, but avoid over-watering, especially if the soil be rather tenacious than otherwise. Keep the bottom-heat at 85°. If it is dependent entirely on leaves or tan, and if it has declined much below 85°, let some fresh tan or leaves be mixed into the top of the bed, and replunge the plants again. Pines never swell their fruit properly after this season, unless the bottom-heat is kept steadily at the point named.

Ripe fruit can be kept for a month or more in first-rate order, if they are removed to a dry fruit-room. Suckers of smooth Cayennes and other autumn and winter fruiting sorts can be taken off and potted as they become large enough. They will root and establish themselves before winter, and will not be so likely to become drawn as when left to grow on the parent plant.

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Those suckers potted in early autumn will now be well rooted and established, and will require cautious treatment, so as to rest them without stinting them. After the middle of the month the night temperature should never exceed 60° in mild weather, and a few degrees less when the weather is cold and calls for extra firing; and a little air should be given every fine day when the temperature exceeds 65°. The bottom-heat should be steadily kept at 75°. The atmosphere should be dry rather than otherwise, but not by any means parching. Very little or no water at the root will be required if they are growing in a bed of leaves and tan. The plunging material is generally moist enough for the maintenance of Pine-roots in a healthy condition, for the soil in the pots is regulated at this season by the state of the plunging material. Where the bottom-heat is supplied entirely by hot-water pipes, and the plunging material is shallow, an occasional watering will be necessary. Recently-potted suckers should be kept 5° warmer till they are tolerably well rooted, and if in very light pits may be kept growing gently through the winter, especially if the condition of the stock of young plants makes this desirable.

All plants intended to be started into fruit soon after the turn of the day should be kept at 60° at night, with a few degrees more bottom-heat than has been recommended for suckers. These will require the same treatment with regard to watering as has been directed for suckers. Plants intended to fruit in succession to these will do with exactly the same treatment recommended for suckers, only be very watchful that they do not get dust-dry, and get such a drying as is likely to cause them to fruit prematurely when increased moisture and temperature are given to them by - and - by. Smooth Cayennes, and other winter varieties that are swelling off their fruit, must be kept steadily moist at the root, with a night temperature of 70°, and 8° or 10° more by day - the bottom-heat to range as near 85° as possible. Avoid syringing overhead after the beginning of the month, but maintain a moist genial atmosphere more by sprinkling the floors and surface of the bed than from the steaming apparatus.

An over-moist atmosphere at this season is productive of large crowns, which are a great disfigurement to Pines. When more fruit ripen than are required at any given time, they can be kept for a long time by removing the plants, without cutting the fruit from them, to a dry room where the temperature is about 50°. Take good care of all fruit that may chance to show this month. These, kept in a temperature of 70° all winter, will come in very acceptably in spring, when Pines are generally scarce and much appreciated. Get covering ready for covering pits during severe weather, which is much to be preferred to keeping up temperature by hard firing. Frigi domo is excellent for this purpose.