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tered sunny place for a fortnight, till supplying them with fresh air at all op- 

 they are inured to the open air, and portunities in mild weather, and giving 

 then in any open exposure, where they moderate waterings occasionally, pick- 

 are designed to remain for the summer, ing off decayed leaves as often as they 

 As soon as they arc brought out let appear, and making moderate fires in 



them be cleared from dead leaves and 

 dead wood, and let the earth on the 

 surface of the pots be stirred, taking a 

 little of the old out and adding some 

 fresh in its stead ; then give a moderate 

 watering, not only to the soil but also 

 over the heads of the plants. Supply 

 them with water during that season, in 

 hot dry weather. All except the suc- 

 culent will require it three times a week 

 at least, and in a very hot dry season 

 once a day will be requisite. The suc- 

 culent kinds must also have a moderate 



severe or foggy weather. 



When the plants are first housed, 

 they should have as much free air as 

 the nature of the season will admit, by 

 opening the windows every mild day to 

 their full extent ; and if the air is quite 

 temperate, they may remain open at 

 nights for the first week : but in cold 

 nights let them be constantly shut. This 

 work of admitting air must be attended 

 to all winter. 



The proper time of day, during llie 

 winter, for admission of air is from 



supply of water twice a week in dry I about eight, nine, or ten in the morn- 

 weather, observing that the proper time ing till three in the evening, according 

 of the day for watering all the sorts at to the mildness of the weather; but 

 this season is either in a morning before as the days lengthen and the warmer 

 nine o'clock, or in the afternoon after season advances, give more air in pro- 

 four or five. Moderate rains should not | portion earlier and later in the day, as 

 deter from watering, especially such j you shall judge proper, being careful 

 plants as have spreading heads, as these ; always to shut all close every evening 

 prevent the rains, unless very heavy or ' as soon as the sharp air approaches, 

 constant, from falling in sufficient quan- In foggy weather it is advisable to keep 

 tities on the earth of the pots to moisten the windows quite close, for the great 

 it properly. In hot weather, if some ; damp occasioned by fogs is very perni- 

 mowings of short grass, or moss, which cious to plants whilst they are confined 

 is neater, are spread on the surface of in the house; likewise in frosty weather 

 the Orange Tree tubs and others, it will keep the house close, unless the frost 

 gre-atly preserve the moisture. During is moderate, and the middle of the day 

 the season loosen the surface of the sunny and warm, when some of the 

 earth occasionally. windows may be opened a little, but 



Removing into the Green-house. — To- shut close again if the sun is clouded, 

 wards the latter end of September, or In severe weather let the shutters also 

 as soon as the nights become cold, be- be closed every night, and occasionally 

 gin to return into the green-house the in severe days, and be particularly 

 more tender kinds, and especially the careful to water with great moderation 

 succulents should be removed to shelter whilst the plants remain in the green- 

 at the first approach of excessive wet house. 



and cold nights. 



A sunny day from about eleven to two 



The Oranges, Lemons, and all the, o'clock, is then the proper time for 



other species of Citrus, should also be 

 moved into shelter in due time, either 

 at the end of September or early in 

 October. 



Continue moving in the others as the 

 cold increases, and by the end of the 

 month or first week of November bring 

 in the whole collection ; observing, ac- 

 cording as the time approaches for mov- 

 ing in the different sorts, to clear them 

 peri'ectly well from decayed leaves, &c., 

 and let all the pots be well cleaned, 

 and loosen the surface of the earth in 

 each pot, adding a little fresh soil. 

 Their principal culture now will be, 



watering. (Abercombie.) 



See January and other months for the 

 routine work. 



GREEN MANURE is a mass of re- 

 cently growing plants dug whilst green 

 and fresh into the soil, for the purpose 

 of enriching it; and it is a rule without 

 any exception, that all fresh vcg(>tal)le 

 matters so turned into the earth do 

 render it more fertile, and if plants are 

 grown upon the soil for this purpose, 

 the greater the amount of the surface 

 of leaves in proportion to that of roots 

 the better, because such plants obtain a 

 large proportion of their chief constitu- 



