Jan. 
OF GARDENENG. 
If the Plants be Beaded ee America, let 
- them be. foaked in a ftrong Decoétion of Wood 
Soot and Tobacco, to deftroy the Infeéts, with 
which they commionly are lodded, and which 
will deftroy them, and {pread over every thing 
elfe in the Stove, if not killed ‘at firft in this 
Manner. 
If the Plantation be made in the more ufual 
Way from Crowns and Suckers of our own Pro- 
duce, there requires a great deal of Gates tho’ 
of another Kind. : 
Let the Crown be taken off from the Fruit 
very gently ; and the Suckers drawn away with 
fuch Caution, as not to break the Membrane 
that naturally furrounds them. 
Let the lower Leaves be taken off, and let |. 
both be laid upon a Shelf in a warm Room, 
till the Bottoms are dry and hardened : for if 
planted while wet, they will rot. | 
Let the Gardener take this practical Cau- 
tion, that the Suckers if carefully drawn off; 
will be fit for planting much fooner than the 
Crowns. 
In general, three, four, or five Days lying, 
will’ do in Summer; but in Winter, they take | 
ten Days, and will not rs well any where but in 
the Stove. 
‘When the Bottoms are frm wad: fit for. 
planting, let the Gardener put fome of his Com- 
~poft into as many {mall Pots as he has Crowns and 
ei Suckers. 
‘Let him ‘carefully plant one in each Pot ; ; 
and pouring in more Compoft, fix it well; and 
when all are thus planted, let them_ be ies in 
~ the Bark-bed : obferving that the Bark is of a mo- 
derate Degree of Heat, and fetting the Pots in 
the Bark up to the Rim, and at a imall Di- 
ftance. . | 
Here they are to be kept during ‘the Boink 
mer, without any farther, Heat, than that of the 
Bark : and in Winter, with the Help of a gentle 
Warmth. 
fourth Day in Summer, and every ‘fixth in 
Winter. 
In the April following they will be fit for 
putting into larger Pots, which muft be done with. 
sreat Care 3 fhaking out the Plant with. ‘its Ball. | 
of Earth entire, and filling up with more of the | 
Compott. _ 
once more into larger Pots. 
Thefe fhould not be too large, for fach crowd 
: the Bed, and rather i injure cats help the Plants, 
"At each Time of fhifting, the Bark-bed muft. | 
Be ftirred up; and fome freth Bark added. 
' The Plants ruft then be fet in again, and | 
gently watered, and after this preferved im e- 
very Refpect as at firft. : 
giving thet a ‘Check, and. Gf. they receive any 
when they are fet for F ruity it wil render that 
Fruit fmall and ill tafted, 
No. 20. 
They muft be watered gently every | 
. them a halfpenny Pot will do: 
The Plants fthouid only be taken out of the Jan. 
Fan-bed to the Stove; when they are in a Condi- 
tion of bearing : and in this Manner the Stove 
will always at “the proper Fruit Seafon; which is 
from Fune to the Beginning of Ofober, make a very 
glorious Fi igure, the Whole being fruiting 
Plants. 
As the Fruit are guts, the Ny are to be 
removed and managed for the producing of 
| Suckers, as already direéted, in the Bark-bed; of 
which nothing need be done or feen i in the Stove. 
This is the. beft Way of managing the Plants ; 
and notwithftanding the fecond Fi ire that is necef. 
fary i in Winter for the Bark- bed, it is in the End ~ 
the cheapeft. 
For thofe who chufe to do otherwife, the Bark- 
: bed may be made in the common Way, without 
_ any Convenience. fot firing. 
| Plants muft be removed into the Stove at the 
Approach of Winter, and taken out opis A 
In that Cafe, the 
Spring. , 
The Time of planting dicends upon ripen- 
ing of the Fruit, from which the Crown. is 
taken, or from whofe Root. after cutting, the 
Suckers are raifed; fo that no Week or Month 
can be allotted, but they mutt be taken when 
ready. - 
In this fhort Compafs i is ‘comprized the whole 
Management of the Piné Apple, from taking: 
off the Crown, to its producing the fucceeding 
Fruit : and to this we fhall only add. for the Sake 
of fuch as are lefs experienced in. thefe Things, 
a few practical €autions. 
At the Times of planting and removing. them 
into larger Pots, let there be always a few. Stones 
put in the Pot over the Hole for the Difcharge 
of Water, that it may always keep open: for if 
it fhould fill up, and the Wet -be detained, it 
would certainly rot the Plant. 
What the Gardeners underftand by a ak far- 
thing Por is the full Bignefs for planting the 
Suckers and Crowns at. firft;. and for eft of 
The firft Removal fhould be into petihy ors, 
| or three- halfpenny Ones according to their Size ; 
_and the laft into two penny Pots; thefe being: the 
- fitteft Size for the fruiting Plants. 3 
‘The two Dangers to which thefe Plants are ex- 
pofed, while the dag Degree of Heat. is allowed 
After this they ‘are to be kept i in sia pong them, is to be deftroyed by Infeéts, or choaked 
Manner till the End. of Fuly, and then removed : 
for Want of Air. 
The Infeéts are to be wathed. off with a a ‘Sfatige, 
dipped i in a Decoétion of Wood: foot and Tobacco. 
And the other Accident. is to be prevented, by 
raifing the Glaffés in the Middle of the Dag 
with a notched Stick, 
» The Degree of Heat when Fires are eriployed 
is perfectly to be regulated by the Thermome- 
‘| ters made for that Purpofe, and mark’d with 
When they fhew their Fruit, the Gaxipnet | the Name of the Plant at the due Degree. It 
mutt obferve to remove them no more. .cutrof | 
eheit Pots; for this can never be done without exact Line; but if the Gardener take Care never 
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- to let it tife above four or five Degrees higher, or 
fall four or five Degrees lower than that Mark, 
is impoffible to keep the Heat always to this 
‘he will never hurt his Plants. 
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