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propriety be called the pine-bug ; for it 

 lodges amongft the bottom leaves of the 

 plants, and in the leaft hole or chink iu 

 the houfe. If the ftove is old, and has 

 been infected fbme years, there are thou- 

 fands of them, and their fpawn lodges in 

 the crevices and amongft the tan ; all of 

 which muft be deftroyecl. 



WHERE there is only one ftove, the lat- 

 ter end of Auguftor the beginning of Ser>- 

 tember is . the only time that the opera- 

 tions for a thorough cleaning can be per- 

 formed, as there is no making a perfect 

 cleaning of plants in fruit, 



THOSE that have breeding and fruiting- 

 floves feparated, mould begin with the 

 young plants the beginning of March, 

 and then the plants will not be retarded 

 in their growth. The crowns may be 

 put, after they are drefled, into the houfe 

 that is cleaned ; and the fuckers, as ibon 

 as they are taken off, then there will be 

 time and opportunity fufficient to get the 



fruiting- 



