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with a Sponge wafh off all the In- 

 feds from the Leaves and Roots, 

 which may be eafily effected when 

 the Infects are killed by the Infu- 

 fion ; then cut off all the {mall Fi- 

 bres of the Roots, and dip the Plants 

 into a Tub of fair Water, warning 

 them therein, which is the moft ef- 

 fectual Way to clear them from the 

 infects. Then you mould pot them 

 in frefti Earth, and having ftirred 

 up the Bark-bed, and added fome 

 new Tan to give a frefti Heat to the 

 Bed, the Pots mould be plunged 

 again, obferving to water them all 

 over the Leaves (as was before di- 

 rected); and this mould be fre- 

 quently repeated during the Sum- 

 mer- feafon ; for I obferve thefe In- 

 fects always multiply much fafter 

 where the Plants are kept dry, than 

 in'fuch Places where the Plants are 

 duly watered, and kept in a grow- 

 ing State. And the fame is alio ob- 

 ferved in America ; for it is in long 

 Droughts that the Infects make fuch 

 Deftruction of the Sugar-canes. And 

 in thofe Iflands where they have had 

 feveral very dry Seafons of late, they 

 have increafed to fuch a Degree, as 

 to deftroy the greateft Part of the 

 Canes in the Iflands, rendering them 

 not only unfit for Sugar, but io poi- 

 fon the Juice of the Plant, as to dif- 

 qualify it for making Rum ; fo that 

 many Planters have been ruined by 

 thefe Infects. 



As thefe Infects are frequently 

 brought over from America on the 

 Ananas Plants, which come from 

 thence ; thofe Perfons who procure 

 their Plants from thence, mould look 

 carefully over them when they re- 

 ceive them, to fee they have none 

 of thefe Infers on them ; for if they 

 have, they will loon be propagated 

 over all the Plants in the Stove woe re 

 they are placed : therefore, when- 



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ever they are obferved, the Plants 

 mould be foaked (as was before di- 

 rected) before they are planted into 

 Pots. 



It was formerly the common Pra- 

 ctice of moll Perfons, who cultiva- 

 ted this Fruit in Europe, to build dry 

 Stoves, in which they placed their 

 Plants in Winter, putting the Pots 

 on Scaffolds (after the manner in 

 which Orange- trees are placed in a 

 Green-houfe), and in the Summer 

 to keep them in Hot-beds of Tan- 

 ners Bark under Frames : but this 

 is found, by late Experience, a bad 

 Method ; for the Glaffes lying fo 

 near over the Plants, there is not a 

 fufficient Quantity of Air in the Bed 

 to nourifh the Fruit, and give it that 

 vinous Flavour with which good 

 Fruit always abounds ; and when 

 thefe Glaffts are clofely fhut down 

 in the Night, the Vapours which 

 arife from the Fermentation of the 

 Tan, and the Peripiration of the 

 Plants, are clofely pent in, and be- 

 ing condenfed againft the daffes, 

 fall in Water on the Plants. 



Therefore, to remedy this Incon- 

 venience, it is now the Practice of 

 thofe Perfons who are defirous to 

 propagate this Fruit, to erect low 

 Stoves, with Pits therein for ths 

 Ho;-bed, in the manner hereafter 

 defcribed and figured : thefe are built 

 in different ways, according to the 

 Fancy of the Contriver. Some Fer- 

 fons build them with upright Glaffes 

 in Front, about four Feet high, and 

 Hoping Glaffes over thefe, which rife 

 about fix Feet high, fo that there is 

 juft Height enough for Perfons to 

 walk upright" on the Back-fide of 

 the Bark-bed. Others make but one 

 Slope of Glaffes, from the Top of 

 the Stave, down to the Plate, which 

 lies fix or eight Inches above the 

 Bark-pit, in the Front of the Stove 

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