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The leaves are all dressed off that portion of the de- 

 tached trunk, and from the bottom of the sucker, 

 which will have made a quantity of roots in the axil 

 of the leaf of the detached trunk, and is then planted 

 into a pot, nine or ten inches diameter at the top, plac- 

 ing the detached trunk at the bottom of the pot, before 

 the drainage is put in, in order that the sucker may 

 be sufficiently deep to be covered with the soil. When 

 plants are cut down in the winter, they ought to be 

 planted in very small pots, or they may be planted in 

 fresh tan, and taken ap, and potted in the spring into 

 a pot ten inches diameter at the top ; and thus it is 

 intended to perpetuate a successive progeny of suckers 

 and fruit. {Hamilton on Tine Apple^ 70.) 



Root Scorching. — To avoid this, the best plan is 

 to sink a pot into the tan large enough to contain 

 that in which the pine apple is growing, and leaving a 

 vacant space, half an inch wide, all round. Some 

 gardeners merely lift the pot out from the bark, and 

 obtain a similar vacancy by placing a brick or two at 

 the bottom of the hole, and then returning the pot. 

 Other gardeners use inverted pots in the stead of 

 bricks. 



The gardener at Mowley Hall Gardens recom- 

 mends — Instead of inverted pots, or two bricks placed 

 sideways, use two iron rods 1 \ inch wide, and f of 

 an inch thick ; these rods are exactly the width of 



