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TtfE FORCING GARDENEfc. [3. I, 



SECTION X. 



P/J Watering and Steaming the Pinery. 



WATER muft be given fparingly to 

 the plants in dull weather, parti- 

 ntularly in Winter. From about the fir ft 

 p-f Odober to the firft or middle of March, 

 pnce in eight or ten days will generally be 

 fufficient, and that in very moderate quan- 

 tities ; but from March to Odober, plen- 

 tiful waterings will be requifite, and confii 

 durable quantities at a time, generally once 

 in threfe or four days, 



The crowns and fuckers muft have no 

 tvater for the firft fortnight after plant- 

 ing ; and none over-head the firft Winter, 

 left their hearts fliould damp. Indeed I 

 do not advife watering much over-head, 

 -except in clear weather, in Winter. But, 

 in the Summer months, my practice has 

 been, firft, to give the quantity requifite to 

 f:he root, from the fpout of the watering- 

 pot ; and then a fufficient quantity to wet 

 jbvery part of the leaves from the rofe. 



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