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ado, Olive-coloured Pine- apple, or^ Ananas fni^u ovato 

 ex luteo virefceiite, came lutea. Plum. hiji. 



3tio, The green Pine-apple , or. Ananas aciileaiuf fru^u 

 pyramidiili ex viridi Jlavefcente, of King- Pine. 



When 



But it will be alfo neceffiuy to have a bark-pit under 

 a deep iVame, in order to raife the young plants; tor in 

 this bed you fnculd plunge the fuckers, when they are 

 taken irom the old plants, as alfo the crowns which 

 come from the fruit ; (o that this frame will be as a 

 nurftry to raife the young plants to fiipply the ftove: 

 but thefe plants fliouid not remain in theft; frames 

 longer than tiil the beginning of November^ unlefs the 

 frame have flues in it to warm the air (in the manner 

 bciore defcribed), which are vtry ufeful, as nuiferies, 

 to keep the young plants till they are of a proper fize to 

 produce fruit ; fo that you may keep thefe cooler than 

 the ftove; which may be every autumn filled only 

 with bearing plants, whereby a much greater quanti- 

 ty of fruit may be annually produced, than can be 

 where young and old plants mufl: be crouded into the 

 fame Aove : but where there are .no conveniencies of 

 this kirid, the young plants, about the middle or lat- 

 ter end of Ol-lober, mufl be removed into the ftove, 

 and being fmall, may be crouded in amongft tlie lar- 

 ger plants ; for fmce they will not grow much during 

 the winier-leafcn, they may be piaced very ciofe to- 

 gfther. The beginning of Alarch you muft remove 

 t;iefe plants out into the hot-bed agam, which fliould 

 be prepared a fortnight before, that the tan may have 

 acquired a proper heat: but you fhould be careful that 

 the tan be not too hot ; for that might fcaid the fi- 

 bres of the plants, if they are fuddcnly plunged there- 

 in. Therefore if you find the bark ,too hot, you 

 fhould not plunge the pots above two or three inches 

 into the tan, letting them remain fo untrl the heat of 

 the tan is a little abated, when you fhould plunge the 

 pois down ;o thfeir rims in the bed. If the nights fliould 

 continue cold after thefe plants are rcaioved into the 

 bed, you n:uil carefully cover the glaffes with mats; o- 



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