148 METHOD OF RAISING 



to remove them from the old stem without 

 breaking or bruising, by placing the hand near 

 the lower part of the sucker, and loosen and 

 slip them off clean. When they appear dry and 

 hard at the bottom, they may be immediately 

 planted, first cutting the ragged part at the 

 bottom smooth, and remove some of the under 

 leaves by cutting or pulling them off, indeed, the 

 future progres of the plants much depends upon 

 the suckers and crowns being properly prepared 

 for planting. 



The sizes of pots usually used for planting 

 the crowns and suckers in, are forty-eights and 

 thirty -twos, the forty-eights for the small, and 

 thirty-twos for the larger ; the pots being 

 filled with the proper mould, (as described under 

 the head of soils,) they should be planted shal- 

 low in the earth, only sufficient to make them 

 fast in an upright position, then give them a 

 light watering, and plunge them in the bark 

 bed, which should be of a moderate heat ; and if 

 no other is ready, they may be placed in the 

 main pinery, the pots plunged close together, 

 and fill up all the cavities between them with 



