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nine inches diameter at the top, and seven deep, with fresh mould 

 entire. 



The bed at this time should be renewed with a little fresh tan, 

 and forked up in order to promote its heating, and the pots plunged 

 therein immediately. The Hot-house should be kept pretty warm 

 till the heat of the tan begins to rise, as it will be the means of caus- 

 ing the plants, to strike both sooner and stronger. 



As soon as the bed gets warm, give the plants a sprinkling of wa- 

 ter over their leaves ; and when you perceive them to grow, give 

 water according as they require it ; and as the weather increases 

 in heat, give air in proportion. 



Parlous Shrubby and Succulent Plot-House Plants. 



The various kinds of shrubby and succulent exotics, will require 

 the same treatment this month as directed in the last, page 170, 

 . Scc.but particularly observing to give them air in proportion as the 

 heat of the weather increases, and water according to their respect- 

 ive necessities, as noticed in February. 



Propagation of Exotic Trees, Shrubs and Plants. 



This is a very proper time to sow such seeds of rare plants as you 

 are able to procure : those that are in good condition and whose 

 nature it is to vegetate the first season, will rise freely, but many- 

 kinds will not grow for three, four, five or six months after sowing ; 

 and others not for a year ; therefore, it will be necessary to have 

 patience, and to take care all the time of the whole, as well the pots 

 in which the plants do not rise, as those that do ; if you have room 

 to plunge them into the bark-pit, or into hot-beds at work or made 

 for the purpose, it will greatly facilitate their growth. 



You may now propagate many kinds by suckers, cuttings, and 

 layers, which should be duly attended to, paticularly such as are 

 scarce and difficult to be otained. 



Raising early Flowers, Fruits, &c. in tks Hot-House. 



Pots of any desirable flowering plants may still be introduced, to 

 forward an early bloom, such as pinks, fuschia's, hydrangea's, roses^ 

 carnations, and many others. See February, &c. 



Also pots of strawberries and vines, as in the two former months r 

 to continue the supply of early fruit. 



Likewise a few more kidney-beans, Sec. See last month and 

 January. 



In hot-houses where vines are trained in, from plants growing on 

 the outside, and conducted up under the glasses, Sec. they will to- 

 wards the end of this month, or earlier according to the degree of 

 heat kept up, be well advanced in young shoots, having fruit, which 

 shoots should be carefully trained along in regular order, and all 

 the improper and superfluous growths cut away. 



