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it moft three-halfpenny pots, according to the frze of 
the plants ; for you muft be very careful not to over- 
pot them, nothing being more prejudicial to thefe 
plants. The fecpnd time for drifting of them is in 
the beginning of Auguft, when you fnould fliift thofe 
plants which are of a proper fize for fruiting the fol- 
lowing fpring, into two-penny pots, which are full 
large enough for any of thefe plants. At each of 
thefe times of drifting the plants, the bark-bed Ihould 
be llirred up, and forne new bark added, to raife the 
bed up to the height it was at firft made •, and when 
the pots are plunged again into the bark-bed, the 
plants Ihould be watered gently all over their leaves, 
to wadi off the filth, and to fettle the earth to the 
roots of the plants. If the bark-bed be well ftirred, 
and a quantity of good frefir bark added to the bed, 
at this latter drifting, it will be of great fervice to the 
plants •, and they may remain in the fame tan until 
the beginning of November, or fometimes later, ac- 
cording to the mildnefs of the feafon, and will require 
but. little fire before that time. During the winter 
feafon thefe plants will not require to be watered 
oftener than once a week, according as you find the 
earth in the pots to dry : nor fhould you give them 
too much at each time, for it is much better to give 
them a little water often, than to over-water them, 
efpecially at this feafon. 
You muff obferve never to drift thofe plants which 
drew' their fruit, into other pots ; for if they are re- 
moved after the fruit appears, it will flop their 
growth, and thereby caufe the fruit to be fmailer, and 
retard its ripening, fo that many times it will be Oc- 
tober or November before the fruit is ripe •, therefore 
you fhould be very careful to keep the plants in a 
vigorous growing ftate, from the firft appearance of 
the fruit, becaufe upon this depends the gcodnels and 
fize of the fruit •, for if they receive a check after this, 
the fruit is generally fmall and ill tailed. 
When you have cut off the fruit from the plants, 
whofe kind you are defirous to propagate, you fhould 
trim the leaves, and plunge the pots into a moderate 
hot- bed, obferving to refrefh them frequently with 
water, winch will caufe them to put out fuckers in 
plenty ; fo that a perfon may be foon fupplied with 
plants enough of any of the kinds, who will but ob- 
ferve to keep the plants in health. 
There is not any thing which can happen to thefe 
plants of a more dangerous nature, than to have them 
attacked by fmall white infedts, which appear at firft 
like a white mildew, but foon after have the appear- 
ance of lice : thefe attack both root and leaves at the 
fame time, and if they are not foon deftroyed, will 
fpread over a whole ftove in a fhort time ; and in a 
few weeks will entirely flop the growth of the plants, 
by fucking out the nutritious juice, fo that the leaves 
will appear yellow and ficlcly, and have generally a 
great number of yellow tranfparent fpots all over 
them. Thefe infedts, after they are fully grown, ap- 
pear like bugs, and adhere fo clofely to the leaves, as 
not to be eafily wafhed off, and feem as if they, had 
no life in them. They were originally brought from 
America upon the plants which were imported from 
thence, and I believe they are the fame infedts which 
have deftroyed the fugar canes of late years in fome 
of the Leeward iflands. Since they have been in 
England, they have fpread greatly in fuch ftoves, 
where there has not been more than ordinary care 
taken to deftroy them. They have alfo attacked the 
Orange-trees in many gardens near London, and have 
done them incredible damage •, but I do not find they 
will endure the cold of our climate in winter, fo that 
they are never found on fuch plants as live in the open 
air. The only method I have been yet able to dis- 
cover for deftroying thefe infects, is by waffling the 
leaves, branches, and items, of fuch plants as they 
attack, frequently with water, in which there has 
been a .flrong infufion of Tobacco-ftalks, which I find 
will deftroy the infects, and not prejudice the plants. 
But this method cannot be praftifed on the Ananas 
plants, becaufe- the infects will fallen themfelves fo 
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low between the leaves, that it is impoffible to coins 
at them with a fponge to wafh them off ; fo that if 
all thofe which appear to fight are cleared off, they 
will loon be fucceeded by a frefh fupply from below, 
and the roots will be alfo equally infilled with them. 
Therefore, wherever thefe infects appear on the plants, 
the fafeft method will be, to take the plants out of 
the pots, and clear the earth from the roots ; then 
prepare a large tub, which fnould be filled with water, 
in which there has been a flrong' infufion of Tobacco- 
ftalks ; into this tub you fhould put the plants, placing 
fome flicks acrofs the tub, to keep the plants im- 
merfed in water. In this water they fhould remain 
twenty-four hours-, then take them out, and with a 
fponge wafh off all the infects from the leaves and 
roots, which may be eafily effedted when the infedts 
are killed by the infufion ; then cut off all the fmall 
fibres of the roots, and dip the plants into a tub of 
fair water, wafhing them therein, which is the moft 
effectual way to clear them from the infedts. Then 
you fhould pot them in frefh earth, and having ftirred 
up the bark-bed, and added fome new tan to give a 
frefh heat to the bed, the pots fhould be plunged 
again, obferving to water them all over the leaves (as 
was before diredted) and this fhould be repeated once 
a week during the fummer feafon ; for I obferve thefe 
infedts always multiply much fafter where the plants 
are kept dry, than in fuch places where the plants are 
lbmetimes fprinkled over with water, and kept in a 
growing ftate. And the fame is alfo obferved in 
America, for it is in long droughts that the infedts 
make fuch deftrubtion in the fugar canes. And in 
thofe iflands where they have had feveral very dry 
feafons 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 fugar, but 
poifon the juice of the plant, fo as to difqualify it for 
making rum, whereby mapy planters have been 
ruined. 
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, fhould look carefully over them when they 
receive them, to fee they have none of thefe infedts 
on them ; for if they have, they will foon be propa- 
gated over all the plants in the ftove where thefe are 
placed : therefore, whenever they are obferved, the 
plants fhould be foaked (as was before diredted) be- 
fore they are planted into pots. 
It was formerly the common pradlice of thofe perfons, 
who cultivated this fruit in Europe, to build dry 
ftoves, in which they kept their plants in winter, pla- 
cing the pots on fcaffolds (after the manner in which 
Orange-trees are placed in a green-houfe), and in the 
fummer to place them in hot-beds of tanners bark 
under frames. This was the method pradlifed in Hol- 
land for railing this fruit, which by Monfieur Le 
Cour’s gardener was firft taught thofe perfons, 
whom his mailer was fo kind as to fend the plants. 
But as the culture of thefe plants have lince become 
general in England, there has been great improve- 
ments made, not only in the contrivances of the 
ftoves, but alfo in the culture of the plants. For by 
the former method, the plants were kept upon Ihelves 
at leaft four or five months, whereby the extreme 
fibres of their roots became dry and hard ; for if the 
plants were too often watered, it occalioned their rot- 
ting; fo that during the winter feafon, when the plants 
Ihould be preparing their fruit for the next fummer, 
they were at a Hand, making little or no progrefs, 
whereby the fruit did not appear early enough in the 
fpring to ripen in fummer, nor were the fruit fo 
large. 
Therefore, to remedy this inconvenience, it is now 
the pradlice of thofe perfons who are defirous to pro- 
pagate the fruit, to eredl low ftoves, with pits therein 
for the hot-bed, in the manner hereafter defcribed and 
figured; thefe are built in different ways, according 
to the fancy of the contriver. Some perfons build 
them with upright giaffes in front, about four feet 
high. 
