306 ROOMS DIRECTIONS, &C. [April. 



APRIL. 



WE remarked last month, that, about this season, where 

 it is convenient, an eastern window is more congenial to 

 plants than a southern. The sun becomes too powerful, 

 and the morning sun is preferable to that of the afternoon. 

 "West is also preferable to south. Some keep their flower- 

 ing plants in excellent order at a north window. But the 

 weather is so mild after this, that there is no difficulty in 

 protecting and growing plants in rooms. They generally 

 suffer most from want of air and water ; the window must 

 be up a few inches, or altogether, according to the mild- 

 ness of the day. And as plants are liable to get covered 

 with dust in these apartments, and not so convenient to be 

 syringed or otherwise cleaned, take the first opportunity of 

 a mild day to carry them to a shady situation, and syringe 

 well with water such as are not in flower; or, for want of 

 a syringe, take a watering-pot with a rose upon it ; allow- 

 ing them to stand until they drip, when they may be put 

 into their respective situations; or expose them to a shower 

 of rain, but avoid allowing them to be deluged, which 

 would be very injurious. 



DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTS BROUGHT PROM THE 

 GREEN-HOUSE. 



Any plants that are brought from the green-house during 

 the spring months ought to be as little exposed to the direct 

 rays of the sun as possible. Keep them in airy situations, 

 with plenty of light, giving frequent and liberal supplies of 

 water. Plants may be often observed through our city 

 during this month fully exposed in the outside of a south 

 window, with the blaze of a mid-day sun upon them, and 

 these, too, just come from the temperate and damp atmo- 

 sphere of a well-regulated green-house. Being thus placed 

 in an arid situation, scorched between the glass and the 

 sun, whose heat is too powerful for them to withstand, the 

 transition is so sudden, that, however great their beauties 

 may have appeared, they in a few days become brown, the 



