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when the sun is upon them, as it often turns the leaves 

 yellow, and injures the plants. 



Water in the evening from the latter end of May to the 

 latter end of August, and afterwards in the morning, as 

 we often have frosts the beginning of September. 



In the winter plunge pots up to the rim in tan or ashes 

 to preserve the plants from the frosts. 



Hardy Greenhouse Plants should be kept chiefly in the 

 shade during the summer months, but never under the 

 droppings of trees. Air is of consequence to all plants, so 

 that they should be placed where they can have plenty 

 of it, though not so exposed as to be injured by high 

 winds. 



If you wish for Roses at Christmas, select from your 

 Rose Trees such buds as are just ready to blow ; tie a 

 piece of thread round the stalk of each. You must take 

 care not to touch the bud with your hand, or even the stalk 

 any more than you can avoid. Cut it carefully from the 

 tree, with the stalk two or three inches in length. Melt 

 some sealing-wax, and quickly apply it to the end of the 

 stalk. The wax should be only as warm as to be ductile. 

 Form a piece of paper into a cone-like shape, wherein place 

 the Rose ; screw it up carefully, so as to exclude the air 

 from it; do so by each ; then put them all into a box, and 

 the box into a drawer, all which is intended to keep them 

 from the air. On Christmas day, or any other day in 

 winter, take them out, cut off the end of the stalks, place 

 them in a flower-pot with lukewarm water. In two or 

 three hours they will blow as in the summer, retaining all 

 their grateful fragrance. 



Whenever you want to transplant any Flower Roots in 

 the summer season, make it a rule to do it in the cool of 



