37^ .The Hot-House. [Julyv 



to let out the fleam, and to admit air, and fhade them 

 from the mid-day fun. 



Care of ripe Pine-apples^ and the Croons of them for 

 Planting. 



As the pinc-apples will now ripen apace, care fhould 

 Ibe had to gather them when in due perfedion, and be- 

 fore too ripe j generally cutting them in a morning j- 

 each with feveral inches of the ftalk, and with the crown 

 of leaves at top till ferved to table. 



Obferve, however, when, the pine-apple is to Jbe eat- 

 en, that as the crown of leaves which grow at top, and" 

 any young fuckers at the hs.{Q being proper for propa- 

 gating the plants : they fhould, when taken from the 

 fruil, be returned, in order to be plan ted .- 



Thefe generally make ilrong and healthy plants : buf 

 Before the crowns, &c. are planted, let them, as foon as 

 taken from the fruit, be laid in a fhady place, in the 

 ftcve, till the bottom is quite dry, and then planted' 

 Ungly in fmall pots, and treated juft in the manner as- 

 direfted above, in the general management of the 

 crowns and fucker^.- 



Shifting the SucceJ/ion Fine-apple Plant's » 



Now fhift the pines, which are to produce fruit next^ 

 feafon, into the pots where they are to remain. 



But this need not be done till the laft week in the 

 month. Therefore, by that time, let the pots, and a 

 proper quantity of newcompoft be provided, and brought 

 to the place where the plants are : then, having all things 

 ready, let the pots with the plants be taken up out of 

 the bark-bed, and let them be ihifted-accordiig to the fol- 

 lowing method : 



In the firft place put fome compoft into- the new pot, 

 to the depth of three or four inches. Then let the plant 

 be fhaken out of its- prefent pot, with the ball, if pof- 

 iible, entire, and place, it immediately into the larger 

 pot, and fill up round the ball with more of the com- 

 poft, and let the top of the ball be covered with it about 

 an inch deep. 



In this manner, let the whole be fliifted; and let them 

 be immediately gently watered, and thwi* plunge them^ 

 dirsdly again into the bark-bed.- 



