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leaves, remove the fpecks with a pin, on the old plants 

 you will obferve a fmall infeO:, which you muft alfo take 

 away ; but Ihould they be numerous, wafh the plants with 

 a fpunge and an infufion of tobacco-ftalks ; this will quite 

 deftroy the vermin, without injuring the plants, which, 

 if not timely prevented, might ruin the ftove ; but 

 Ihould this not have the defired eftea;, you mufl: take the 

 plants out of the pots, clearing them of their earth, lleep 

 them in the infufion for twenty-four hours, then they are 

 to be cleaned with a fponge, their fibres fliortened, and 

 rinfed in fair water, when they are to be repoted in new 

 comport, give them new bark, fhade them, and give them 

 gentle waterings, and they will recover in a few weeks. 

 Thofe plants which are planted out of the pots into the 

 kept in them. When the fruit is in blofTom, you mull 

 taU) do not require fo much water as thofe do which are 

 be fure to keep a good heat in the ftove, and at night 

 to cover the glafles with thin broad covers, which fhould 

 be fo contrived as to flide in grooves over them : 

 If the heat of the bark decUnes, add fome new tan to 

 the fruiters in the pots, and if the fame happens to the 

 plants in the tan, take away the old tan carefully with 

 your hand, until you come at their roots, but not to di- 

 flurb them, filling up the place with new j this new 

 bark will bring them on to ripen kindly. 



From an accident I difcovered, that fetting the plant 

 in the free bark, with its ball of earth, gave the ripeft 

 and befl flavoured fruits; but this is not to be done, un- 

 til the plant lirft Ihews its fruit : therefore it has ever 

 fince been my practice, when I obferved my largeft 

 plants fruiting, 1 made up a new tan-bed for them, and 

 when in a good temperature, I took them out of their 

 pots, watering them the evening before, that the earth 

 fhould adhere to their fibres, and planted them in the 

 tan ; where, managing them with care, they anfwered 

 my fondcft expectations. 



At this feafon give your fruitling plants a good watering 

 over their leaves ; nor is there any danger of the water's 

 fettling in their hearts, as the fpace is filled with the 

 fruit, which in young plants is an empty tube, reaching 

 to their hearts. As foon as the fruit comes faft forward, 

 and fwelling, there will appear many fuckers below the 



fruir. 



