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plant ; they were then placed in a house where the heat was 

 about sixty degrees of Fahrenheit, and there they remained 

 till March, 1820 At this period the suckers were broken 

 off from the old stocks, and planted in pots from eight to 

 twelve inches in diameter, varying according to the size of 

 the sucker. It may be proper, however, to observe, that 

 the lenglh of time which the young sucker is allowed to re- 

 main attached to the mother plant, depends in some degree 

 upon the kind of Pine ; the tardy fruiters, such as the Black 

 Antigua, and others, require to be left longer than the Queen, 

 and those which fruit readily. 



After the suckers had been planted, they were removed 

 from the house where they had remained while on the old 

 stock, to one in which the temperature was raised to seventy- 

 five degrees. Immediately upon their striking root the 

 largest of the suckers shewed fruit, which swelled well, 

 and ripened between August and November, being, on the 

 average, ten months from the time the fruit was cut from 

 the old plant, and seven months from the time ttie sucker 

 was planted. The fruit so produced, though, as may be 

 expected, not of the largest description, I have invariably 

 found to be richer and higher flavoured than that grown on 

 older plants. The suckers of inferior strength, will not 

 shew fruit in the same season, but in the following they will 

 yield good fruit, and strong suckers for a succeeding year's 

 supply. Those suckers are to be preferred which are pro- 

 duced on plants that have ripened their fruit in November, 

 for those taken from plants whose fruit is cut in August, or 

 earlier, are apt to shew fruit in January or February while 



