148 The Gardener's New Director. 

 dug, and manured one year before ufing. Where the 

 kitchen-garden mould is not to be had, take virgin earth 

 ten inches deep below the Iward, and no lower, leaving 

 it with the fward, let them rot one year, and when fit 



for 



pening; fo that many times it will be Otloherox Novem- 

 ber before the fruit is ripe : therefore you fliould be very 

 careful to keep the plants in a vigorous growing ftate, 

 from the firft appearance of tiie fruit, becaufe upon this 

 depend the goodnefs and fize of the fruit ; for if they 

 receive a check after this, the fruit is generally fmall 

 and ill-tafted. 



When you have cut off the fruit from the plants, 

 whofe kird you are defirous to propagate, you fhould 

 trim the leaves, and plunge the pots into a moderate 

 hot-bed, obferving to refrelh them frequently with wa- 

 ter, which will caufe them to put out fuckers in plenty; 

 fo that a perfon may foon be fupplied with plants enough 

 of any of the kinds, who will but obferve to keep the 

 plants in health. 



There is not any thing which can happen to thefe 

 plants of a more dangerous nature, than to have them 

 attacked by fmall white infeSls, which appear at firft 

 like a white mildew, but foon after have the appearance 

 of lice: thefe attack both root and leaves at the fame 

 time; and, if they are not foon deflroyed, will fpread 

 over a whole flove in a (hort time ; and in a itw weeks 

 will entirely flop the erovi'th of the plants, by fucking 

 out the nutritious juice, fo that the leaves will appear 

 y,el!o\\* and fickly, and Iiave generally a great number of 

 yellow iranfparentfpots all over them. Thefe in efts, 

 after they are fully grown, appear like bugs ; and ad- 

 here fo clofdy to the leaves, as not to be eafily wafhed 

 ofF, and feem as if they had no life in them. They 

 were originally brought from America upon the plants 

 which were imported from thence, and I believe they 

 are the fame infefts which have deftroyed the fugar- 

 canes of late years in feme of the Leeward- ]f,ands. Since 

 they have been in England, they have fpread greatly in 

 iuch ftoyes, where there has not been more than ordi- 

 nary 



