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required to be fo large as for four or 
five; but the latter have much the bed 
appearance in bloom, producing a greater 
number of bloffoms : it is not however 
advifable, to permit every pod to blow, 
efpecially of fuch forts as are naturally 
poffeffed of but few petals ; becaufe it 
would render each blofiom fmaller and 
thinner than if only one or two were left 
on each plant: it is, therefore, proper in 
this cafe, to cut off, or draw out, the fmall 
lateral pods, clofe to the main Item, as 
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foon as they can be afcertained, in order 
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that the remainder may have time to 
reap due benefit by it; but thofe forts 
that have remarkably large fhort pods, 
abounding with petala, muft be differed 
to bloom them all, or the greater part, 
although, in general, three or four pods 
are as many as ought to be buffered to 
blow on one plant; thefe rules, or re¬ 
marks, 
