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more protracted growth.' 5 The success which has 

 attended this gentleman's mode of " treating the 

 Pine, so as to insure the production of fruit within 

 twelve months from the cutting of their previous 

 produce, has been perfectly satisfactory ;" and the 

 following is his account of it. " In November, 

 1819, as soon as the fruit had been cut from the 

 Pine plants, which were then two years old, all the 

 leaves were stripped off the old stocks, nothing 

 being left but a single sucker on each, and that 

 the strongest on the plant ; they were then placed 

 in a house where the heat was about sixty degrees, 

 and they remained till March, 1820. At this period 

 the suckers were broken off from the old stocks, 

 and planted in pots from eight to twelve inches 

 In diameter, varying according to the size of the 

 sucker. It may be proper, however, to observe, 

 that the length of time which the young sucker is 

 allowed to remain attached to the mother plant, 

 depends in some degree upon the kind of Pine ; 

 the tardy fruiters, such as the black Antigua, and 

 others, require to be left longer than the Queen, 

 and those which fruit readily. 



" After the suckers had been planted, they were 

 removed from the house, where they had remained 

 while on the old stock, to one in which the tem- 

 perature was raised to seventy-five degrees. Im- 

 mediately upon their striking root, the largest of 

 the suckers showed fruit, which swelled well, and 

 ripened between August and November, being, 

 on the average, ten months from the time the fruit 



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