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earth fix months at lead before you ufe them : this com- 

 pofl: is to lie in an airy part of the garden, and the heft 

 expofed to the fun, which, after the three firft months, 

 muH: be turned over every fortnight, to imbibe the 

 nitrous particles of the air. 



I pro- 



to give a freih heat to the bed, the pots fliould be 

 plunged again, obferving to water them all over the 

 leaves (as was before direfted) and this fhould be fre- 

 quently repeated during the fummer-feafon ; tor I ob- 

 ferve thefe infecis always multiply much fafter where 

 the plants are kept dry, than in fuch places where the 

 plants are duly watered, and kept in a growing {late. 

 And the fame is alfo obferved in America-^ for it is in 

 long droughts that the infects make fuch defiruction of 

 the fugar-canes. And in thofe iflands where they have 

 had feveral very dry feafons of late, they have increafed to 

 fuch a degree, as to deflroy the greateft part of the 

 canes in the iflands, rendering them not only unfit for 

 fugar, but fo poifon the juice of the plant, as to dif- 

 qualify it for making rum ; fo that many planters have 

 been ruined by thefe infects. 



As thefe infefls are frequently brought over from Ame- 

 rica on the Ananas plants, which come from thence ; 

 thofe perfons who procure theft plants from thence, 

 fhould look carefully over them when they receive them, 

 to fee they have none of thefe infe6ls on them ; for if 

 they have, they will foon be propagated over all the 

 plants in the lloves where thefe are placed : therefore, 

 whenever they are obferved, the plants fhould be foaked 

 (as was before directed) before they are planted into 

 pots. 



It was formerly the common pra6lice of moft perfons, 

 who cultivated this fruit in Europe, to build dry ftoves, 

 in which they kept their plants in winter, placing the 

 pots on fcaiTolds (after the manner in wliich orange- 

 trees are placed in a green-houfe), and in the fummer 

 to keep them in hot-beds of tanners bark under frames: 

 but this is found by late experience a bad method ; lor 

 the glalTcs lying fo near over the plants, there is not a 



fufficient 



