;:tfAY.3 Am) conservatory. .583 



the above-mentioned methods, tliey should be care- 

 fully revised ; and any that need, should be fresh 

 potted, as directed in March. Others shoukl be 

 fresh-earthed at top ; by removing a little of the 

 old soil ; stirring up the surface a little with the 

 point of a small stick, but not so deep as to injure 

 the roots ; and by filling the pot with fresh mould, 

 to a proper height, according to its size. 



Tall plants, and all those of a straggling kind, 

 should be carefully supported by the help of poles 

 or sticks, in order to resist the bad effects of high 

 winds ; a matter evidently more necessary now, 

 than when they were in the house. Yet stout, low 

 plants, require nothing of the kind ; I only mean 

 such as are in danger of being broken or hurt hy 

 the wind. 



()f the Aiinuah raised for furnishing the Green- 

 House in Simme7\ 



These plants should now be shifted into their full 

 pots ; that is, the balsams should be put into pots 

 ten or. eleven inches diameter at top, and twelve or 

 fourteen inches deep ; and the globes, &c. should 

 be put into pots two inches less, respectively as to 

 width and depth. The same kinds of earth, as ad- 

 ^'ised at last shifting of these plants, should now be 

 used ; and a handful of broken pots, or roundish 

 gravel, should be placed in the bottom of each pot, 

 Xo serve as drainings. 



They may afterwards be placed on the stages, he, 

 in the green-liouse, which is now supposed to be 

 U2idi\ for them, being em.ptiedj or nearly emptied, of 



