OCT.^ AND CONSERVATORY. 60l 



C^ctofter. 



TIIK GREEX-HOrSE. 



Of tahing in the Plants. 



About t]\(i beginning or middle of the month, ac- 

 cording to the state of the weather, it will be pro- 

 per to take in the rest of the plants, lest they might 

 sustain iniurv bv the fallinsj of earlv frosts. The 

 pots should lirst be }>roperly cleaned from earth, 

 rnouldiness, he. especially those that have been 

 plunged. They sliould then be top-dressed or be 

 fresh-earthed, as directed in May ; and the plants 

 should be trimmed, and be pruned of straggling 

 shoots, or dead tiower-stems ; dressing such as need 

 to poles or sticks (as noticed in March), in a natu-' 

 ral looking manner, not stiif and formal; nor stick- 

 ing others than such as do not stand pretty upriglit 

 of themselves; for if they do, they look better with- 

 out this aid, which certainly adds nothing to their 

 beauty. Plants affected with the scaly insect sliould 

 be v/ashed with soap and water, and others siiould 

 be fumigated, if necessary, as directed h\ 3Iarch. 



