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As the hot season proceeds, the plants should be shaded during 

 the he at ofthe days; but in warm weather open all night to receive 

 the dew, and only covered in the middle of the day. In this mode 

 the plants become strong the first summer. In the beginning of 

 October they may be shaken out of the pots, and their roots care- 

 fully separated, planting them singly in small pots filled with light 

 earth; then plunging the pots into an old bark-bed under a common 

 frame, carefully shading them from tlie sun in the middle ofthe day, 

 and giving them water as they require: in this bed the pots should 

 remain during the winter, exposing them to the open air whenever 

 the weather is favourable ; but in frosty weather they should be cc- 

 vered, so as to protect them. In the spring following they may be 

 removed to a gentle hot-bed, vvhich requires no other covering but 

 mats. This enables them to make strong shoots early in the sum- 

 mer, by which they become in a belter condition to bear the cold of 

 the succeeding winter. In this bed they should continue during the 

 summer, and be well protected in the following winter. 



After the plants are become two or three feet in height, shake 

 them out of the pots, and plant them in the open ground in the 

 places where they are to remain, which should be done in April, 

 that they may have taken good root before the winter, which is apt 

 to injure them when newly planted out: and as all the earth about 

 their roots is thus preserved, they will succeed beller. 



The plants are tolerably hardy, and seldom hurt, except in ex- 

 treme hard winters, which often destroy the young tender branches, 

 but rarely the roots. 



They delight in a generous but not loo moist soil, as when planted 

 in dry ground they seldom produce much fruit: the flowers coming 

 forth in autumn, when the winter proves severe, they are generally 

 destroyed; consequently, to obtain fruit, they should be placed in 

 warm situations, and where the ground is not naturally moist ; a 

 good quantity of loam and rotten neat's dung should be laid about 

 their roots, and in dry springs they should be plentifully wa- 

 tered. 



The most proper season for transplanting is September, at which 



