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bed, &c. giving \valer and occasional shade till they are well rooted, 

 repeating the waterings frequently. The plants should afterwards 

 be continued either in the hot-bed under glasses, or plunged in the 

 bark-bed of the stove, to facilitate their growth, preserve them in 

 vigour, and increase the sensibility of the Sensitive kinds; admitting 

 fresh air pretty freely. 



The perennial sorts, both shrubby and herbaceous, must be kept 

 in the stove all winter, and principally the year round. 



And they must be frequently removed into larger pots to prevent 

 the roots from getting through the pots, which they are apt to do, 

 and by that means are often destroyed. 



The Acacia kinds are the most tender, requiring the stove almost 

 constantly, except a little in the heat of summer, when they must be 

 placed in a warm situation. 



They should always have a bark hot-bed, and be put in very 

 small pots filled with sandy mould, the heat of the stove being kept 

 up to above temperate: as the leaves of some of them are shed, they 

 have often the appearance of being dried when that is not the case. 



Where there is not the convenience of a stove, those who are 

 curious to have the plants, may have them in summer, by the aid of 

 a common dung or tan-bark hot-bed under frames and glasses, 

 though not in winter; by raising some of the annual, or any of the 

 other kinds, by seed in spring, in a hot-bed under a frame, &c. 

 keeping up the heat of the bed until the middle of June, and con- 

 tinuing the plants always under the frame, raising one end of the 

 lights a little, occasionally, in warm days to admit fresh air; and as 

 they rise in height, raise the frame at bottom, to allow them full 

 room to grow. About Midsummer, or soon after, some of the low 

 spreading kinds may likewise be turned out with balls, or plunged in 

 their pots into a warm sunny border, and covered with large hand- 

 glasses, which may be lifted off occasionally just to view the plants. 

 By these methods the plants may be preserved through the summer 

 in their sensitive quality, though not equal in perfection to those in 

 stoves; nor can they be preserved alive in winter out of the stove. 

 The shrubby kinds that afford spreading branches may be layed 



