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Stalk below, yet clofe to the Fruit: Thefe Shoots are taken off, and planted ; 
and will in about fourteen Months time producea ripe Pine. Thofe who can- 
not procure thefe Suckers, fometimes plant the Top or Corona. This, though 
intended by Nature chiefly as an Ornament to the Fruit, yet will grow, 
and in time bear a Fruit, not fo foon, nor fo good, as that produced by thofe 
Suckers, which Nature intended to be the Means of propagating this Fruit 
The three beft Sorts of Pines are the Surinam, the Sugar-loaf, and Queen- 
Pine. ‘The Fruit ought to be eaten foon after it is cut, nor ought it to be 
kept upon the Stalk in the Garden, as the Cuftom too often is, till it be 
very foft on the Outfide. 
This is delineated in Plate XXI. 
The Witp Pine. 
THs differs in Tafte from the Pine already defcribed, as much as a Crab- 
apple doth from the beft Ruffet or Golden-pippin. Its Leaves are 
very large, in proportion to the Bulk of the Fruit, which is but fmall. 
The LARGE WILD BarREN Pine; Lat. Caraguata. 
HIS, in Propriety of Language, ought to be looked upon as an aquatic 
Plant, though fufpended in the Air dmong the Branches of lofty Trees, 
to whofe Boughs it is faftened by its numerous Roots, | which ferve not to 
fuck, or draw from them any nutticious Juices to further its Growth, as 
the Mifletoe doth from the Orange-tree, &c. but only to be its Supporter 
provident Nature having in a very extraordinary Manner fupplied this with 
other Means to preferve its Species; for the Leaves, which much refemble 
thofe of Pine, but only larger, furround this Plant in a circular manner, each 
Leaf near the Stalk terminating in an hollow Bucket, which contains about 
halfa Pint of Water. It is by thefe numerous {mall Refervoirs of Water that 
the Roots, as well as every other Part of this Plant, are fupplied with Nourifh- 
ment without the Help of any Earth. The flourifhing Condition of this, as 
well as the great Growth of Fig-trees upon barren Rocks, fhews that Water 
is of greater Ufe to Vegetation than Earth. 
The BuTTON-PINE. 
HIS chiefly differs from the common Pines by its Smalnefs, as well 
as by its four Tafte: Therefore it is never cultivated. Its outward Coat 
is likewife redder, when ripe, than any other. 
The SMALL BaRREN PINE. 
‘THE Leaves of this very much refemble a Pine. From the Middle of 
thefe, inftead of a Pine-apple, grows a woody Stalk rifing to about 
three Feet high, and divided into many Branches, Thefe are almoft intirely 
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