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IF the plants that are in fruit are very 

 dirty and full of vermin when they are 

 removed in the fpring, in order to add 

 frefh heat after the dead leaves are pulled 

 off and the mould in the pot ftirred at top, . 

 Spread a little of the powder over the top 

 of the pot, and put fome in between the 

 leaves, which will preferve the fruit-ftem 

 from vermin, and coafequently the fruit 

 ^nd crown; fo that the fruit will be clean 

 to go to table, and many of the vermin 

 will be killed, but the houfe will not be 

 quite clear ; for the live vermin have 

 many recefles amongii the roots and bark 

 where the infection is great, and has been 

 of a long franding. 



As foon as the fruit is cut, take off the 

 fuckers, and rub the lower part of the 

 {tern well with the powder, putting it in 

 amongft the fmall leaves at the bottom, 

 alfo between every leaf, and into the 

 heart ; for there many of the live vermin 

 often lodge : they then may be put into 

 the bark in the clean ftove very fafely tQ 

 ftrike root, 



