126 GREEN-HOUSEREPOTTING. [MAECH. 



house ; and give them large well drained pots. They 

 are imported from the Cape of Good Hope. All the 

 plants herein named requiring to be drained. In pre- 

 paring the pots, place first a piece of broken pot, or 

 any similar substitute, with the convex side on the 

 hole of the pot, and then put in a few, or a handful, 

 (according to the size of the pot,) of shivers of broken 

 pots, or round gravel, about the size of garden pease. 

 Those that we have mentioned in this Repotting, as to 

 be done in this, or beginning of next month, is not in- 

 tended to apply to plants in general, large and small, 

 but to those that are young, and require encourage* 

 ment, or to those that were not shifted last autumn. 

 The roots must not be disturbed, but the ball turned 

 out entire ; and put as much earth as will raise the ball 

 within about an inch of the rim of the pot. Press the 

 earth down around it with a thin- narrow piece of 

 wood, frequently shaking it that no vacancy may be 

 left. If the roots are rotten, or otherwise injured, take 

 all such off. If this be the case, the plant will be sick- 

 ly. Give it a new pot of a smaller size, administering 

 water moderately until there are visible signs of fresh 

 growth. The plants must not be disturbed while 

 flowering; let the repotting be done afterwards. Plants 

 are, at certain stages of growth, if in good health, in 

 such a state that no one can err in shifting them when 

 desirous to hasten their growth. Those plants that 

 make two or more growths during the summer may be 

 repotted in the interim of any of these growths, and all 

 others just before they begin to push in the spring; 

 that is, when the wood buds are perceptibly swelled. 



