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epacris,* you must proceed in the following man- 

 ner : Fill a watering pot, the rose of which has 

 very fine holes, with water of a proper temper- 

 ature ; incline each pot containing a plant to be 

 cleaned separately over the sink, and then with 

 the watering pot, turning the plant round alLthe 

 time in every direction, pour a fine shower, which 

 will have all the effect of a real rain. By this 

 means you avoid wetting the earth of the pots to 

 excess, and the plants will be perfectly freed from 

 dust. 



These general attentions are applicable to all 

 plants that can be cultivated in doors. 



* The epacris is a New Holland shrub, which the first settlers 

 mistook for a kind of heath, and which is still called heath in Aus- 

 tralia, where the true heath (erica) is unknown. Mrs. London's 

 Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden, edited by A. J. Down- 

 ing. 



