July..] T H F FI T - H u s H. 575^ 



made with tan-bark, if it can be had ; if not, a bed of hot 

 dung, and lay fome earth, or rather tan thereon, to 

 plunge the pots in: into either of thefe beds the pots- 

 arc to be plunged; obferving, at this time, to cut the 

 head of the flock off two or three inches above the bud. 

 In this bed they muft be well fupplied with water, and 

 there muft be frefn air admitted every day, by railing or 

 Aiding fome of the glafles a little way open. By the 

 middle or latter end of July, the^ buds will have made 

 Ihoots perhaps a foot or eighteen inches, and fometimes 

 fwo feet long, or more ; at which time you muft allow 

 them more and more free air every day ; and fo begin, 

 in Auguft, to expofe them fully, to harden them, fo as 

 to be able to ftand in. the green-houfe all winter among^ 

 rhe other plants^*- 



The Hot-House. 



EVERY calm and clear day,, admit air freely into- 

 the hot-houfe. 



For now, as the pine-apples in particular will begin 

 to ripen, frefh air is a very neceflary article.. This is 

 needful to improve the flavour of the ripening fruit, and 

 alfo to promote the growth of thofe which are ftill fwell- 

 ing, and will prove univerfally beneficial to the exotics 

 in general of this department. So that at this feafon, let 

 the glaftes be drawn open fome confiderable width, in- 

 creafmg the portion of air as the heat of the day ad- 

 vances. 



The pines muft alfo,. in general, be very duly fup- 

 plied with .water. They will need it pretty often ; but 

 let moderation be at all times obferved. 



But, in particular, fuch plants whofe fruit are begin- 

 ning to ripen, muft be very fparingly watered; but it 

 will, notwithftanding, be proper to allow them fome, 

 though too much would \ery much debafe the flavour of 

 the fruit. 



0/ Propagating the Pine-apple Plants. 



Pine-apple plants are propagated by planting tne top 

 ercrown of leaves which grow on ths top of the fruit ; 



each 



