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not have repeated this observation, if it was not an es- 

 sential point, and one which is so frequently neglected. 



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OF SHIFTING PLANTS. 



Those Alstromerias that are growing freely, and in . 

 small pots, should be put into pots of a larger size. 

 This genus of plants will not flower except they are 

 encouraged with frequent shifting : they are all beauti- 

 ful. 



MARCH. 



The plants .in this compartment will begin to assume 

 a different aspect, and air must be admitted every day 

 if practicable, giving large portions in sunshine by the 

 sashes regularly over all the house, opening those of 

 the front a little, and likewise the doors in fine mild 

 days. To perform this judiciously, give a little about 

 eight or nine o'clock, more at ten, and the whole from 

 eleven till twelve o'clock, shutting again by degrees. 



Fire heat will now be dispensed with, but in frosty 

 nights have the shutters on about sundown. The sun 

 is now powerful, and the house can be early shut up in 

 the afternoon, and will gain as much natural heat as 

 will keep up the required temperature, viz. 36 to 40. 

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