JANUARY.] HOT-HOUSE WATERING PLANTS. ] ] 



OF WATERING THE PLANTS. 



To do this judiciously, is so necessary to vegetation, 

 and so requisite to understand, and yet the knowledge 

 so difficult to convey to others (being entirely acquired 

 by practice,) that if the power was in man to impart it 

 to his fellow-men, he would possess the power of 

 perfecting a gardener by diction. However, the hints 

 on this important point of floraculture, will be as clear 

 and expressive as can at present be elicited. All plants 

 in this work that are aquatic, shall be specified as 

 such ; and those that are arid shall be duly mentioned. 

 All others will come in the medium. 



All the plants must be looked over every day, and 

 those watered that appear to be getting dry on the 

 top. It must be strictly observed not to give water to 

 any but such as are becoming dry, and let it be given 

 moderately at this season. Two or three days may per- 

 haps elapse before it need be repeated. There is not so 

 much liability to err at present in giving too little, as in 

 administering too much. Vegetation amongst the stove 

 or Hot-house plants will soon begin to show, and the soil 

 will prove uncongenial if it is impregnated with stag- 

 nant moisture. Small plants should always be watered 

 with a pot, having what is termed a rose upon it. The 

 surface of the rose, that is, where it is perforated with 

 small apertures, ought to be level, or a little concave, 

 which would convey the water more to a centre, and 

 make neater work, by preventing any water from being 

 unnecessarily spilt in the house. The size of the pot 

 will be regulated by the person to suit the conveniences 



