April.] ROOMS DIRECTIONS, ETC. 29? 



APRIL 



WE remarked last month that, about this season, where it 

 is convenient, an eastern window is more congenial to plants 

 than a southern. The sun becomes too powerful, and the 

 morning sun is preferable to that of the afternoon. West is 

 also preferable to south. Some keep their flowering plants 

 In excellent order at a north window. But the weather is 

 so mild after this that there is no difficulty in protecting and 

 growing plants in rooms. They generally suffer most from 

 want of air and water : the window must be up a few inches, 

 or, altogether, according to the mildness of the day. And 

 as plants are liable to get covered with dust in these apart- 

 ments, and not so convenient to be syringed or otherwise 

 cleaned, take the first opportunity of a mild day to carry 

 them to a shady situation, and syringe well with water such 

 as are not in flower; 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 

 situations; or expose them to a shower of rain, but avoid 

 allowing them to be deluged, which would be very injurious. 



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 observed through our city du- 

 ring this month fully exposed in the outside of a south win- 

 dow, 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 is 

 so sudden, that, however great their beauties may have ap- 

 peared, they in a few days become brown ; the flowers tar- 



