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have not struck root, may be laid aside with the 

 suckers. 



With respect to the time for taking off tlie suck- 

 ers, it is when tlie bottom part becomes brown ; 

 and they are then easily displaced by the thumb, 

 after having broken dov/n the leaf immediately un- 

 der them. But indeed, by the time the fruit is 

 ripe, all suckers of the stem are fit for taking off, 

 though they will sustain no injury by being left on, 

 even for a month, but rather improve, if the stock 

 be healthy, and if it be well watered. Suckers that 

 rise from tlie root always have fibres, and may be 

 taken off" at any time ; but, as formerly observed, 

 they shduld not be taken into tlie stock, unless in 

 a case of necessity. 



Some think it necessary to dry, or nin, all crowns 

 and suckers bef;>je potting tjiem, and for that pur- 

 pose lay them on the shelves, &c. of the stove for a 

 week or ten days. By this treatment, they certain- 

 ly may be hurt, but cannot be improved, provided 

 they have been fully matured before being taken 

 from off- the fruit or stocks, and that these have pre- 

 viously had no water for about ten days. They will 

 succeed as w^ell, if planted the hour they are taken 

 off, as if treated in any other way whatever ; and I 

 only advise their being laid aside as above, as being 

 a matter of conveniency. 



Of sJiifting the Succession Plants. 

 As the succession plants, formerly treated of, now 

 become the fruiters for next year, the bark-bed in 

 the fruiting-pit must be prepared for them, and they 



