i2o OF THE ANANAS, 



roots, it will not be worth the trouble of 

 potting a fmall number. Cut the roots 

 off and plant them with the unrooted 

 fuckers, as hereafter fha!l be mentioned. 

 If the roots are not cut off they are apt to 

 rot when planted in the bark, and are de- 

 trimental to the young roots when they 

 pum. 



SOME time before the fuckers are in- 

 tended to be taken off, there mould be a 

 place prepared in the breeding-dove for 

 their reception : the bark mould be 

 trenched over, and as much new bark 

 added as will make a moderate heat, and at 

 the top there mould be at leaft a foot of 

 old bark without any mixture of new ; 

 and when very dry, it mould be watered 

 until it is moifl. 



THIS mould be done feven or eight days 

 before the fuckers are taken off, that th;8 

 heat may rife before they are planted ; for 

 if the bark be quite cold they will be in 

 danger of rotting ; and, which is full as 



