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be about the end of September, if the 

 plants fruited at a proper feafon. 



ALTHOUGH the tan is in feeming good 

 order between the pots, yet underneath it 

 will be dry, hulky, and mouldy, if the 

 plant has had no water for fome time be- 

 fore the fruit be cut; therefore as foon as 

 the fruit is off it mould have a large quan- 

 tity of water, which will run through free- 

 ly, moiften the bark, an<l caufe it to fer- 

 ment afrem, which will greatly encourage 

 the growth of the fuckers. If they are 

 low in the pot they will ftrike roots and be 

 fit to pot as foon as they are taken off, 

 which- may be done with fafery, if there is 

 a proper heat to plunge them in ; for as 

 they have been long on the old plant their 

 items will be hard and dry. 



As foon as they get roots. they are al- 

 moft ready to drop of^ fo there will be a 

 very fmall wound where they are taken 

 off the old plant, and no danger of rot- 

 ting ; but if there is only a few that have 

 H 4 roots, 



