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Thefe hints are given to ftiewhow neceffary it is to take care, that 
the feeds we fend abroad fhould be perfectly ripe and dry. 
One of the methods now pra&iiing in fending garden-feeds 
to the Eaft and Weft-Indies, is to put a fmall piece of camphire 
into each parcel: as to this experiment, we are not yet certain of 
its fuccefs ; the hint is taken from the common method of preferv- 
ing butterflies, moths, beetles, and other infefts, from being de- 
ftroyed by very minute animalcules, which are apt to infeft them. 
Flowers of fulphur in water, in a certain proportion, will dc- 
ftroy infers that infeft plants, and will rather encourage than 
hurt their vegetation, as appears from a method praftifed here 
with fuccefs for many years, in the culture of the ananas, or pine- 
apple plant, by one of the moft eminent fruit and kitchen garden- 
ers in England * •* . The in fide of boxes and cafks fhould be wafhed 
with 
* In order to introduce the method of deftroying infedls that infeft the ananas, or pine-apple 
plant, it may not be difagreeable to the reader, to know fome general rules (though foreign 
to our prefent fubjeft), that are neceffary to be obferved in the culture of that curious and 
delicate fruit. 
“ The ftems of the heads and fuckers fhould not be ftripped up higher than to the place 
“ where they appear white under the leaves you pull off. 
“ The compofition to plant them in fhould be three parts of ftrong frefh loam, and the 
“ fourth part rotten dung; they fhould be mixed together, and often turned, for a year at leaft 
“ together before it is ufed. The pots fhould be rather fmall than large, in proportion to the 
“ plants at all times.— The plants fhould be put into the ftove or ftore-pir, and kept with a 
“ brifk heat, fhading them from the violence of the fun, and fprinkled every day, or twice a 
“ day, if the weather is hot. — In a week they will have roots enough to fupport themfelves, 
•* and fhould be inured by degrees to the full fun, and the oftener they are fprinkled in warm 
“ weather, the fafter they will grow ; but when they are fprinkled, they fhould be flout up 
“ clofe, and fhaded for an hour or more; then give them air, and take away the (hade. 
“ Thofe plants that are large, and that you defign fhould hear fruit the next year, fhould be 
“ put into larger pots the latter-end of Auguft, when fome new tan fhould be added, and 
“ mixed up with that which they flood in till this time. — In November, the tan-bed fhould 
“ be turned over two-thirds of the way down, and a good quantity of new tan mixed with it, 
“ throwing away fome of the rottenell, which may be feparated by fereening it: this will heat 
“ fufficiently to carry the plants on till January or February, when they will fhew their fruit, 
“ if the fire heat is kept up as ufual. As foon as the plants begin to grow in the fpring, 
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