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rot : when they are planted, they should be placed in the shade, or 

 plunged in the tan-pit till newly rooted, giving them a little water 

 as necessity may require. The hardy sorts may be planted in a 

 bed of light sandy earth*, where, if they are screened with mats, for 

 sometime, they will freely take root. 



Bringing out the Hot-house Plants. 



About the twenty-fifth of this month, you may, in the middle 

 states, begin to bring out the hardier sorts of hot-house plants ; if 

 they had been removed into the green-house eight or ten days pre- 

 viously, it would be of service, as there, they would gradually be 

 prepared, hardened, and become in a good condition for a removal 

 into the open air. The more tender kinds should not be brought 

 out, till the first week in June, but if previously removed into the 

 green-house, for a week or ten days, it would be the better way ; 

 always observing, wherever they are, to give them abundance of air, 

 to harden and prepare them for the transition. 



In the eastern states, the above work is to be deferred, in every 

 instance, from one to two weeks later, according to climate and the 

 local situation of the place ; and to the southward of the middle 

 states, it may be done somewhat earlier. 



Should you have no pine-apples in your hot-house, and that there 

 are plants permanently growing in any beds or borders therein, 

 the roof-lights should be totally taken off, when the other plants 

 are out, that these may receive the full benefit of the open air 

 during the summer months, &c. 



As to the manner of placing and treating the pots when, and after 

 being brought out, I would advise the same as recommended for 

 the green-house plants, which see. 



You must be very careful when you plunge any of your pots, to 

 make it a particular point to turn them round in their seats, once a 

 week, in order, that such roots as run into the ground, through the 

 holes in the bottoms, may be broken off; for, though these would, 

 for the moment, encourage the growth of the plants, when you 

 come to take them up for housing,, the sudden deprivation of their 

 usual supply of nourishment, would give them such a check, as se^ 

 riously to injure them ; and besides, they would be but ill rooted in 

 the pots, and badly prepared to extract the necessary nourishment; 

 during winter. 



