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FEBRUARY. 



At this season, the plants call for the most assiduous 

 attention. If the stage has been made according to 

 our description, in very cold nights it should be drawn 

 to the centre of the room, or at least withdrawn from 

 the window, observing every night to close the window 

 V tight by shutters, or some substitute equally as good. 

 And, if the temperature begins to fall below 34, means 

 should be adopted to prevent it, either by putting a fire 

 in the room, or opening any adjoining apartment where 

 fire is constantly kept. This latter method is the best 

 where it is practicable, and ought to be studied to be 

 made so. 



Some, very injudiciously, in extreme frosts put into 

 the room, where there is no chimney, amongst the 

 plants, a furnace of charcoal, in order to heat the 

 room. The effect is, that the foliage becomes dark 

 brown, and hardened like, and many of the plants die, 

 the rest not recovering until summer. 



Watering may be attended to according to the di- 

 rections of January, only observing that those that 

 begin to grow will absorb a little more than those that 

 are dormant. 



Roses, especially the Daily, if kept in the house, will 



