CH. 9*] PINES. 203 



tiful waterings over head with the fame 

 mixture reduced to about half its former 

 ftrength. 



I continued this treatment for two whole 

 months. At the end of which, I again 

 fliaked out their roots, and wafhed the 

 whole plant in pure water ; put them into 

 frefh pots, eight inches in diameter 3 re- 

 plunged them into a kindly heat in the 

 other nurfing-pit ; and treated them in all 

 refpecls as other plants. I never faw a 

 veftige of the bug afterwards ; and of thofe 

 very plants were produced my principal 

 ftock. A few indeed of thofe that had 

 ihown fruit died ; but the others brought 

 fuch fruit as might have been expected 

 from plants of their fize, of any other 

 kind. 



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