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be just so thick with earth as to contain completely 

 the balls of the plants after they are turned out, al- 

 lowing a reasonable distance, which in a pit that is 

 capable of receiving a hundred plants, the border 

 round will contain 46 of them. One end of the bor- 

 der should be left unplanted till last, for the conve- 

 niency of filling the middle of the bed. \¥hen the 

 border is done, bring in so much tan as will fill up 

 the middle part of the pit ; then the remaining plants 

 should be shifted into pots a size larger, as may be 

 necessary, and plunged in the tan at a reasonable 

 distance. (Giles on Ananas.) 



The system does not appear to have been even 

 partially adopted, until attention was again roused to 

 it by the late President of the Horticultural Society. 

 Upon this, Mr. Loudon observes — 



The present practice is exactly the same that Mr. 

 Knight commenced with, and it has years ago been 

 recorded in the Transactions of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. As soon as the plants shew fruit, the strong- 

 est sucker is preserved ; all the others being taken 

 off as they appear. When the fruit is cut, the plant 

 is taken out of the pot with as many roots as can be 

 removed with it ; all the leaves, except four or five 

 on the top of the stool, are scaled off ; the leaves are 

 also scaled off the base of the sucker in the usual 

 manner. The sucker, however, remains growing on 

 the stool until, in its turn, it becomes the parent 



