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further the amount of fruit from a given number of 

 stools^ by ripening more than one upon each. To 

 use his own words — 



His attention has been directed to the producing 

 two fruit on one plant at the same time, and he is 

 getting entirely into this practice as fast as he can. 

 Hitherto he has experienced little difference in size 

 between each of the two fruit so produced and the 

 single ones. Moreover, those plants that produced a 

 brace last year, have produced a brace this year also. 

 With regard to the size of the fruit produced by the 

 old stools, in most instances they have surpassed those 

 from the maiden plants. Mr. Jennings, of Worsley, 

 has cut a brace from the Montserrat (Black Jamaica 

 of some,) which weighed lOlbs. ; other varieties have 

 been produced, of equal w^eight, by other persons. 

 {Gard, Journ. 1845, 716.) 



Mr. Hamilton also gives the following directions. 

 After all the plants are taken out of the bed, let the 

 old tan be levelled, well trodden down, and smoothed 

 with the rake ; the whole bed then covered with fresh 

 tan to the depth of ten inches ; the plants immediately 

 taken out of their pots, with their balls as entire as 

 possible, and plunged into the bed, beaten tightly about 

 the ball, and covered to the depth of one inch only. 

 If the ball, with the roots, be covered too deeply, they 

 will be in danger of being burned. The tan used for 

 this mode of culture must be made from British bark, 



