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air should be given, if only for half an hour in the middle of the day. 
The house should be kept clean, and free from dead leaves; and the 
plants should not be too much crowded. Nothing can iook worse 
than pale sickly green-house plants, drawn up to an unnatural length, 
and so weak that their stems will not stand upright without the aid 
of a stick. When green-houses are crowded with plants, some of 
which are too far from the light, this must be the case; and when it 
is, it is quite hopeless to expect either healthy plants or fine flowers. 
Though it is adviseable to have saucers to the pots of plants kept in 
rooms, for the sake of cleanliness, it is much better for those kept in 
the green-house to be without them. All persons having a great 
number of plants in pots, should be provided with a small watering- 
pot, having a very long spout, for the convenience of reaching the 
different pots ; and care should be taken to give water to each pot in 
succession, by resting the spout of the watering-pot in turn on each. 
The watering-pot may have roses of two or three different kinds, to 
screw on as wanted. 
Watering Pots for Green-House Plants, 
As different green-house plants require a somewhat different treat- 
ment, the following directions for the management of a few of the 
most popular may be useful to my readers. 
Camellias.—The Camellia is a plant which requires abundance of 
water, and is yet soon killed by suffering stagnant moisture to re- 
main about the roots. When grown in pots there should be abun- 
dént drainage; that is, the pots should be nearly a quarter filled 
with potshreds. The soil should be peat-earth, and sand, which 
may be mixed with a little vegetable mould, if it is desired to have 
the plants of very luxuriant growth; and the plants should be potted 
high, so as to let the collar of the plant be quite above the rim of the 
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