i;o OF THE ANANAS, 



better to lofe a few infected fruit than be 

 too late in getting the plants for next year 

 cleaned and put in order, as they have all 

 frefh roots to make ; and there is no doing 

 things effectually if any infected plants are 

 in or near the ftove, 



THE cafe is very different in having 

 plants that never have been dreffed, which 

 are much infected, in pots near clean 

 plants, and plunging a drefled plant that is 

 full of vermin amongil: them ; for the live 

 yermin, whole fpawn dirties the leaves of 

 the plants, lodge in the pots amongil the 

 roots and in the tan, and there is no poffi- 

 bilily of being certain of coming at them 

 with the powder. Thofe in the pots may 

 efcapc into the tan and foon increafe their 

 numbers, fo that all the labour that has. 

 been bellowed will be loft, 



WHEN a plant is taken out of the pot, 

 and all its roots cut off, there are none of 

 the vermin that are come to life but what 

 will be deftroyed ; for if any of them are 



lurking 



