37^ The Hot- Ho use. [July. 



each fruit or apple generally produces one top or crown ; 

 which, when taken oiF and planted, freely takes root, 

 and becomes a good plant, which in two years will pro- 

 duce a ripe fruit equal to that from which it was pro- 

 duced. The plants are alfo propagated from young 

 fuckers, which arife at the bottom or bafe of the fruit, 

 as likewife from fuckers produced from the root, or 

 lower part of the old plants, which bear the fruit ; all of 

 which, /. e. either the crowns at top of the fruit, 

 fuckers at bottom, or fuckers from the old plants, are . 

 generally fit to take off Tor planting when the fruit is 

 ripe ; and thofe annexed to the fruit are to be feparated 

 at the time the fruit is ferved at table, and referved for 

 the purpofe of propagation, managing them as hereafter 

 di reded ; and the fuckers arifmg immediately from the 

 plants may be taken off any time when they are arrived 

 to the proper ftate of growth ; which, like thofe on the 

 fruit, is alfo commonly about the time the fruit has at- 

 tained to its due perfedfrion of ripeneis, or very foon af 

 ter ; but, as there are fometimes many of the plants 

 which are not furnilhed with fuckers juft at that period, 

 or at leail are then but very fmali ; in either of thefe 

 cafes, the plants fhould be treated in the following man- 

 ner, in order to prepare them to produce fuch, or to forward 

 fuch fmall ones thereon as are not yet arrived to the due 

 maturity, to be feparated from the mother-plant; which 

 is, when they are about four, Hve, or fix inches long ; 

 and their lower part becomes fomewhat of a brown co- 

 lour. 



Therefore obferving, in. confequence of any ofthe old- 

 fruiting-plants not furnilhing bottom fuckers, or that - 

 they arc very fmall, 'and that it is required to have as 

 large a fupply of young plants as poihble j may,- as foon 

 as the fruit is cut, take up the pots of fuch plants out of 

 the bark-bed ; cut down the leaves to fix inches at the 

 bottom ; pull off alfo the under-leaves round the bot- 

 tom ofthe plant; and then take a-littie of the old earth 

 from the top ofthe pot, 1;11 it up again with lome frefh. 

 compoft, and give fome water, Then re-plunge them in a- 

 bark or dun5:-bed, where there is a tolerable brifc heat ; 

 and, from tune to time, moderately watered. 



The old plants, with this management, will foon put 

 out fome go.)d fuckers: and when they are grown to the , 

 length of about four, five, or fix inches, they are then to- 

 be 



