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them rot before the next mifting, that 

 they may be pulled off to get a good ttrong 

 long item to pufh vigorous roots. 



As many of the fuckers will be very 

 large, and have made roots five or fix 

 inches long, they mutt have penny pots 

 at their firtt potting ; nor mould they re- 

 main longer in the bark than to make 

 roots of that length, for if the roots are 

 longer they muft be either cut offor twill- 

 ed round the pot, or put into pots too large 

 for them, all of which are very detrimen- 

 tal to their growth. If there mould be a 

 'root too long to be laid even, it is better 

 to cut it off at a joint than totwift it round 

 the pot, or to plant the fucker in too large 

 a pot. 



BY allowing the fuckers to remain fb 

 long on the mother plant, they grow 

 much fatter than if they were taken off as 

 foon as the fruit was cut : they alfo hard- 

 en in the ttem, and as they grow hard, 

 they alfo form fmall knobs on the fides of 



their 



