j 5 6 OF THE ANANAS, 



houfe amonp;ft clean plants : they dropi 

 ped off the infected plants, and did no. 

 damage in the houfe, which is a certain 

 proof they were all killed. 



SIR THOMAS'S ftoves being all new, 

 there was no place for the vermin to lodge 

 in, neither had the infection been violent, 

 and of fo fhort a duration, as two years, 

 that the vermin were in the pots and ou 

 the plants. The houfe was not fmoked, 

 neither was the tan fifted, only the mix- 

 ture applied, which I did by way of pre- 

 venting the fpreading of the infects, with 

 an intent to go through the operation in 

 the autumn ; but as I found, long before 

 that time, they were all deftroyed, I pro- 

 ceeded no further, and have never feei\ 

 one fince. 



THE white fpeck on the leaves of pines 

 is the fpawn of the white creeping infect* 

 and is depofited on the leaves of the pines 

 much in the fame manner as the caterpil- 

 lars are on the leaves of cabbages. 1 have 



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