i6o OF THE ANANAS, 



fruiting-houfe perfectly cleaned, which 

 fhould be done as foon as poffible, in or- 

 der that the fruiting-plants may be put 

 Into their fruiting-pots in good time. 



ALL the young plants muft be removed 

 out of the houfe to fome convenient place 

 where they can remain with fafety for near 

 twenty days, for fo long will it take to 

 get the houfe completely ready for them; 

 The weather at that feafon being fome- 

 times very cold and hard frofts, they mufh 

 be in a place where they can be protected 

 from the inclemency of the weather, and 

 have fome heat. The flue of the fruiting- 

 flove will be the propereft place 1 ; and al- 

 though attended with fome little inconve- 

 nience, it will hre only for a fhort time. 



THEY mould have a board fet under 

 them, which mufh have fome bricks uri- 

 der it, to make a vacuum between the 

 flues and the plants ; for if they are fet 

 on the bare flues it will dry their roots too 

 much and caufe them to fruit. They 



muft 



