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'bad as if the heat was to he violent and 

 fcorch the {terns, which would retard the 

 plants three months, if it does not quite 

 fpoil them ; but if only a fmall quantity 

 of new bark be added, there will be little 

 danger of its being too hot. 



As foon as the -bark is a little more than 

 milk-warm, take off the fuckers from the 

 old plants and plant them immediately 

 with a fetting-mck in the prepared bed, 

 jufl as they are taken from the ftools. They 

 may be planted in rows at fix or eight 

 inches diftance as they are in largenefs, 

 and four inches afunder in the row. They 

 fhould be four inches deep in the bark, 

 and if made fail: it will be of great fervice 

 to them to be planted that depth, for it 

 will rot the fmall leaves round the bottom 

 of the plant, fo that they may all be taken 

 off when they are potted. Their being 

 planted in this manner a fmall fpace will 

 hold many plants, which will give an op- 

 portunity of preparing the beds for their 

 reception when they are pitted* 



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