HO OF THE ANANAS, 



THE beft method to prevent their fruit- 

 ing is to give them only a moderate heat, 

 and to keep them juft moid ; and if the 

 heat declines any time in the winter, the 

 plants mould be taken out of the bed and 

 a little frefh bark added : this will renew 

 the heat milk-warm, the degree of which 

 is fufficient for them at this time of the 

 year. 



THE beginning of March they mould 

 be taken out of the pots, many of the roots 

 cut off, fo that there may be a fufficiency 

 of frefh earth round the ball when they 

 are put into penny pots ; being abfblutely 

 neceflary to mift them at this time, and to 

 give them frefh earth to promote their 

 growth, as that in which they have been 

 in all the winter will be much fpent. 



IT is alfo neceflary to plant them into 

 lefs pots ; for if they were to be put, at 

 this fhifting, into pots a fixe larger than 

 thofe they are now in (as the ball mould 

 be no more broke after this) the pots they 



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