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as to permit, as much as possible, the free circulation 

 of air. 



The same caution must be observed in the green- 

 house, to guard carefully against fogs and damp, 

 which are very pernicious ; but in clear weather 

 the admission of abundant air should be daily at- 

 tended to ; indeed the green-house cannot be pre- 

 served from damp by any means but by the free 

 admission of air and free circulation, when the 

 weather suits, is the best ; water must occasionally 

 be given, but in great moderation, otherwise a sickly 

 hue will become general through the plants, and the 

 leaves will turn yellow and fall off; any that do fall 

 off, and all decayed wood, should be removed. 



All seedling plants arid roots should now be pro- 

 tected. The pots and boxes, if riot under cover, 

 should be placed in dry and warm borders, and the 

 pots sunk in the earth as a protection against frost: 

 these are all brief and easy operations, but there are 

 other necessary labors to be attended to. In prun- 

 ing flowering shrubs, as Roses, &c., the old wood 

 should be cut out, and the young retained at a 

 proper distance, and where it has become long and 

 straggling, it should be shortened. Suckers of Roses 

 should be bedded in a nursery, until they acquire 

 strength sufficient to plant out. Roses, where re- 

 quired to flower in perfection, should be pruned and 

 well manured regularly ; rotten dung is the most 

 effectual, and indeed they can scarcely get too much 

 of the best rotted cow and horse manure. Other 

 shrubs, when delicate and sickly, should be fed with 

 well-reduced vegetable mould, which is a panacea ; 

 they are all better for having the ground lightly dug 

 round them every year. 



Advantage should be taken of the leisure which 

 this dead season of the year affords, to prepare com- 



