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improvement, if kept within certain limits ; but, if 

 carried too far, what might be gained by the sucker 

 coming earlier into fruit, would be lost by the re- 

 tardation of the" plant's own suckers. 



On Nov. 3. 1818. " A Queen Pine, grown by 

 Peter Marsland, Esq. of Woodbank, near Stock- 

 port, was exhibited to the Horticultural Society. 

 It weighed three pounds fourteen ounces, measured 

 seventeen inches in circumference, and was pecu- 

 liarly well-flavoured. The singularity of this Pine 

 was its being the produce of a sucker which had 

 been removed from the parent-root only six months 

 previous to the time the fruit was cut. The plant 

 on which the sucker grew had produced a fruit, 

 which was cut in October, 1817; the old stem, 

 with the sucker attached, was allowed to remain in 

 the Pine-pit till May, 1818 ; at that time the sucker 

 was broken off, potted, and plunged into a fresh 

 pit ; it soon after showed fruit, which, in the course 

 of four months, attained to the weight and size 

 above stated. Mr. Marsland is in the practice of 

 producing Pines in this way with equal success and 

 expedition. His houses are all heated by steam." 

 Hort. Trans, iv. 52. 



On the 17th of Oct. 1819, specimens of the 

 New Providence, globe, black Antigua, and En- 

 ville, were exhibited, all which were produced in a 

 similar manner to the above. P. Marsland con- 

 siders, that " though not of the largest description, 

 yet as far as beauty of form and richness of flavour 

 are concerned, they would not yield to fruit of 



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