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have not struck root, maybe laid aside with the 

 suckers. 



With respect to the time for taking off the suck- 

 ers, it is when the bottom part becomes brown ; 

 and they are then easily displaced by the thumb, 

 after having broken down the leaf immediately un- 

 der them. But indeed, by the time the fruit is 

 ripe, all suckers of the stem are fit for taking off, 

 though they will sustain no injury by being left on, 

 even for a month, but rather improve, if the stock 

 be healthy, and if it be well watered. Suckers that 

 rise from the root always have fibres, and may be 

 taken off at any time ; but, as formerly observed, 

 they should not be taken into the stock, unless in 

 a case of necessity. 



Some think it necessary to dry, or win, all crowns 

 and suckers before potting them, and for that pur- 

 pose lay them on the shelves, &c. of the stove for 

 a week or ten days. By this treatment they cer- 

 tainly may be hurt, but cannot be improved, pro- 

 vided they have been fully matured before being 

 taken from off the fruit or stocks, and that these 

 have previously had no water for about ten days. 

 They will succeed as well, if planted the hour they 

 are taken off, as if treated in any other way what- 

 ever ; and I only advise their being laid aside as 

 above, as being a matter of conveniency. 



Of shifting the Succession Plants. 

 As the succession plants, formerly treated of, now 

 become the fruiters for next year, the bark-bed in 

 the fruiting-pit must be prepared for them, and they 



