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the plants ; after which they may be planted, and 

 treated as advised for fresh-potted suckers. {Mills 

 on Pine Apple, 79.) 



Mr. John Bowers, gardener to Lord Selsey, at 

 West Dean House, in Sussex, destroys the bug and 

 scale on pine apple plants by a wash consisting of 

 three gallons of rain water, two pounds of soft soap, 

 eight ounces of black sulphur (sulphur vivum), and 

 two ounces of camphor, boiled together for an hour, 

 and to which is then added three ounces of turpen- 

 tine. He turns out his plants, divests the roots of 

 their fibres, and immerses them in a trough nearly 

 filled with the liquid, at a temperature of from 1 20 to 

 136 degs., for about five minutes. Queen and Sugar- 

 loaf pines he finds require the highest heat stated ; 

 Antiguas and others need not have it above 124 degs., 

 but those to which a lower temperature is used must 

 remain double the time immersed. When taken out 

 of the liquor they are well drained, and set on the 

 flue of the house with the roots upwards, until 

 they become dry ; they are then put into small-sized 

 pots, and plunged in fresh tan, with a good bottom 

 heat kept up by dung linings. They are shaded 

 from the sun in the heat of the day, and a little air 

 given until they begin to grow, which will be in about 

 three weeks from the time they are potted. The 

 above operation may be performed between the 

 months of February and September. {Hort, Soc, 

 Trans, vi.) 



