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with a ball of earth about the roots, keep the 

 faid ball as intire as poliible, trimming away 

 a litcle of the outward old earth at fides and 

 bottom, together with any matted or long 

 llraggling roots, then place it with the ball 

 into the new pot, and fill up around with 

 freili earth, and give fome water. 



Difpofe the plants, the fmaller ones to- 

 wards the front, and the taller plants behind, 

 plunging fome of the more tender kinds int;o 

 the bai-k bed, fuch as all the pine-apple 

 plants, in particular. 



In the bark Hot-houfe, furnilhed with a 

 pit for a bark-bed, this lliould be filled with 

 new tanner's bark, obtained from the tan 

 yards; the principal feafon for which, is An- 

 tumn, about Auguft, September, or Odp- 

 ber, as may be required, though it may be 

 done at almoft any time when neceilary ; bac 

 for a general rv'?newal of the bark-bed for the 

 reception cf the pine-apple, and to affift in 

 warming the internal air of the houfe more 

 efFeftually throughout the Winter, it is moll 

 eligible to be performed in Autumn, princi- 

 pally towards the latter end of September, or 

 in Odober, or beginning of November, at 

 latett, in order that it may afford a good heat 

 all Winter^ as before obferved. 



The tanner's bark, for this purpofe, ihould 

 be fuch as is moderately frelh, not having 

 been too long caft out of the tan vats to 

 have become decayed : and that of the 

 middling fize is beil, and not too fmall and 



earthy. 



