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the nursery-stove. In cases where there is a want 

 of plants, when the old plant produces ripe fruit, and 

 no suckers from the bottom, as soon as the fruit is 

 cut, trim the leaves of the old stools, giving them 

 freely of water, and it will dispose them soon to send 

 forth several suckers. {Griffin on Fine Apple, 35.) 



Some persons indeed raise objections against those 

 suckers that are produced late and near the roots, 

 and call them contemptuously underground suckers. 

 But they will produce as fine fruit as any other 

 plants. 



Mr. Hamilton's treatment of suckers is as fol- 

 lows : — 



Suckers taken off in October, or November, plant 

 into pots, from five-and-a-half to six-and-a-half inches 

 diameter at the top, and plunge over head in the 

 tan : this causes them to strike root in a very 

 short time. In this state let them remain, without 

 any water, except occasionally sprinkling them with 

 the syringe, and this, in the winter season, only in 

 the early part of the day. In March, transplant into 

 pots from seven to eight inches at the top ; and at 

 this shifting, plunge up to their rims, in a heat of 

 about 85 or even 90 degs. for a week or two after 

 potting, to accelerate their striking root into the fresh 

 soil. As soon as plunged, sprinkle them over their 

 leaves with water, two or three degs. warmer than the 



