156 The Gardener's New Director. 



This number will be fufficient to furnifh your (love to 

 give annually one hundred good truit. 



On the arrival of your plants in June, as has already 

 been mentioned, unpot them, taking away mod of the 

 earth from about their roots, and fuch fibres as you 

 find injured or any way decayed; then with your 

 compoft, plant them into pots o\ the fame fize in which 

 they arrived, obferving to cut off the extremities of all 

 fuch leaves as are withered or injured, but no other, up- 

 on any account; watering them, to fettle the earth a- 

 bout them ; then fet them in the tan, which fhould you 

 find too hot, put them but half-pot deep, and in a fort- 

 night after, you may fink them to their brims, gently 

 watering them three times a week, with fuch water as has 

 been kept in the ftove for twenty-four hours, that it 

 m.ay have the fame confiftency of heat, as the air in the 

 itove, and never to ufe any other water than fuch as has 

 undergone fome preparation, either for the ftove, green- 

 houfe, or hot-bed ; and obferve that water taken from 

 a pond that is well expofed to the fun is the beft, pro- 

 vided not fed with hard fpring, which is a great enemy 

 to vegetation: fliade your plants for a month in hot fun- 

 i"hine, until you perceive them growing. On funftiiny 

 days the glafles fliould be raifed to give them air, when 

 they may be watered all over their leaves, to cleanfe 

 them from any filth ; obferving that the water does not 

 fettle for anv time in the tube at their hearts, which 

 if it does, will injure them very much. 



About the end oi Augujl it will be proper to look for 

 the biggeft plants, I mean fuch from which you ex- 

 peQ: fruit the fucceeding year; and if tKey have filled 

 the pots into which they were planted on their arri- 

 val, it will be now necefiary to remove them into lar- 

 ger, (two-penny ones, at leaft) having firfl: obfer- 

 ved, that their roots, and the earth about them, are 

 wholefcme and good; if otherwife, take fuch earth 

 and fuch roots away, and give them new earth, of the 

 compcfl already directed. Stir up the bark in the bed, 

 and add fome frefh to it, this will renew the heat when 

 they are to be fet into it again, there to remain until 

 Michaelmas^ giving water, air, and Ihading for three 

 weeks after this tranfplanting, as has been direded. 



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