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 poft fucceeded fo well, that it produced much larger 

 fruit than any other, v/hich induced me ever after to 

 ufe a good deal of marie for thefe plants : the colour ot" 

 the marie fhould be white, or of a yellowifh call, well 



dug. 



the fuckers and crowns of the former year's fruit (which 

 remained all the winter in thofe pots in which they were 

 firfl planted) (hould be fliitted into larger pots; i. t. 

 thofe which were in halfpenny or three-farthing pots, 

 fliould be put into penny, or, at mod, three-halfpenny 

 pots, according to the fize of the plants ; for you muft 

 be very careful not to over-pot them, nothing being 

 more prejudicial to thefe plants. The fecond time for 

 ihifting of them is, toward the latter end of Augujl, or 

 the beginning of September, when you Ihould fhitt thofe 

 plants which are of a proper fixe for fruiting the follow- 

 ing fpring, into two-penny pots, which are full large 

 enough for any of thefe plants. At each of thefe times 

 of fhifting the plants, the bark-bed fhould be flirred up, 

 and fome new bark added, to raife the bed up to the 

 height it was at firft made ; and when the pots are 

 plunged again into the bark-bed, the plants fhould be 

 watered gently all over their leaves, to wafh off the filth, 

 and to fettle the earth to the roots of the plants. If the 

 bark-bed be well ftirred, and a quantity of good frefh 

 bark added to the bed, at this latter fhifting, it will be of 

 great fervice to the plants; and they rnay remain in the 

 tan until the beginning of November, or Ibmetimes later, 

 according to the mildnefs of the feafon ; and will not re- 

 quire any fire before that ti.nne. During the winter-fea- 

 fon, thefe plants will not require to be watered ottener 

 than every third or fourth day, according as you find 

 the earth in the pots to dry : nor fhould you give ihem 

 too much at each time; for it is much better to give 

 them a little water often, than to over-water them, e- 

 fpecially at that feafon. 



You muft obferve never to fliift thofe plants which 

 (hew their fruit, into other pots ; for if they arc remov- 

 ed after the fruit appears, it will ftop the growth, and 

 thereby caufe the fruit to be fmallcr, and retard its ri- 

 L 2 pening ; 



