i 5 2 OF THE ANANAS, 



never has that good flavour as when the, 

 plants are clean. Befides the damage 

 done to the fruit, they greatly retard the. 

 growth of the plants, and make them very. 

 \mfightly. 



THOSE that are infected, if not kept 

 under hy cleaning, will be totally de- 

 ftroyed, and cleaning them by hand is at- 

 tended with much trouble, and at a conft- 

 derable expence ; to bruih and clean them 

 properly will take up a great deal of 

 time ; befides in doing it the leaves are 

 often broke and the fides fcratched, fo that 

 the leaves decay in patches, which makes, 

 the plants very unfightly : and what is 

 worfe, after all that trouble and expence, 

 they are as bad in a few weeks as they 

 were before ; yet, if they were not cleaned 

 when moved, they would grow fo dirty 

 that the infe<ts would quite deilroy the 

 plants. 



MANY things have been tried, and 

 even advertized as effectual remedies to 



