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ting should commence about the middle of March, 

 if the weather is not extremely unfavourable ; but 

 it should not, on any account, be deferred later 

 than the end of that month. The pot is, in the 

 first place, to be half filled with compost, having 

 an oyster-shell, with its hollow side downwards, 

 placed over the hole in the centre of the bottom : 

 this compost is to be higher at the sides than in 

 the centre of the pot ; and the plants intended for it, 

 which are supposed to have been wintered in small 

 pots, containing four plants each, are to be care- 

 fully turned out of their pots, with all the earth 

 adhering to them, in a ball ; and after rubbing off 

 about half an inch of the surface of the old mould, 

 round about the plants, above their fibres, cleaning 

 them and cutting off the decayed points of their 

 leaves, the ball is to be carefully placed in the cen- 

 tre of the pot, and the space between it and the 

 sides filled up with the prepared compost. 



" It is very necessary to be attentive in placing 

 the plants, that they be neither planted deeper nor 

 shallower than they were before ; the compost 

 should therefore be high enough to replace the old 

 earth that was rubbed off on potting, exactly to the 

 same height as before, i. e., half an inch higher 

 than the ball of old earth and fibres, and the whole 

 surface of the earth in the pot, when the operation 

 is finished, should be nearly level or flat ; but by 



