2 1 4 ROOMS DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTS, &c. [APRIL. 



rooms than in any other department, and not so conve- 

 nient to be syringed or otherwise cleaned, take the first 

 opportunity of a mild day to carry them to a shady si- 

 tuation, and syringe such as are not in flower well with 

 water ; or for want of a syringe take a watering-pot 

 with a rose upon it : allowing them to stand until they 

 drip, when they may be put into their respective situa- 

 tions. 



DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTS BROUGHT FROM THE GREEN.HOUSE. 



Any plants that are brought from the Green-house 

 during the spring months ought to be as little exposed 

 to the direct rays of the sun as possible. Keep them 

 in airy situations, with plenty of light, giving frequent 

 and liberal supplies of water. Plants may be often ob- 

 served through our city during this month fully exposed 

 in the outside of a south window, with the blaze of a 

 mid-day sun upon them, and these too just come 

 from the temperate and damp atmosphere of a well 

 regulated Green-house. Being thus placed in an arid 

 situation, scorched between the glass and the sun 

 whose heat is too powerful for them to withstand, the 

 transition being so sudden, that, however great their 

 beauties may have appeared, they in a few days become 

 brown, the flowers tarnished or decayed, and the failure 

 generally attributed to individuals not at all concerned. 

 From this and similar causes many have drawn the 

 unjust conclusion, viz. that " plants from Green-houses 

 are of too delicate a nature to be exposed in rooms or 

 windows at this early season." But every year gives 



