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of tlie pot. Then earthing up with the prepared 

 compost, pressing it a Uttle round the trunk of the 

 plant, and allowing it to slope down to the edge of 

 the pot. The plants, after earthing up, will com- 

 mence growing immediately, and new roots will be 

 thrown out from the bared trunk into the fresh soil. 

 If water has been withheld for a time, on account of 

 improAing the flavour of the fruit, they ought to have 

 a good watering at their roots ; but if in the winter, it 

 must be applied more sparingly ; and a growing bot- 

 tom heat of about 80 degs. be kept at the time. 

 This watering do not repeat until the next fruit is cut, 

 but endeavour to keep the soil continually moist (not 

 w^et,) by frequently syringing over the leaves with 

 lukewarmx water. By attention to watering, moist 

 atmosphere, &c. the suckers will grow rapidly, and per- 

 fect their second fruit, generally speaking, in from 

 eight to twelve months from the time the first was 

 cut. If the plants have met with no accident at their 

 roots, they must remain in the same pot, which will 

 have to be placed inside a pot much larger and deeper. 

 The process is as follows : — First dress off all the 

 leaves, until the bottom of the sucker is bared which 

 produced the last fruit, which will be found to have 

 made a great number of roots at its base, in the axil 

 of the adjoining leaf, and which must be covered dur- 

 ing the process of earthing up. Then remove all the 

 old soil down to the roots, and sink the pot, with the 



