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than the fmall plants, whofc ftems are 

 fhort and pots little. 



I T will be fourteen or fifteen days be- 

 fore they want any water, and then only 

 a little, which muft be poured in amongft 

 the lower leaves, becaufe there are no 

 roots but what are clofe to the ftems, and 

 they muft be managed in every refpecT: 

 the fame as the plants that were drefled 

 in the Spring. 



As foon as the young roots will hold 

 the ball together, they muft be fhifted 

 into larger pots ; the fruiting-plants into 

 the pots they are to fruit in, and the fuo 

 ceflion-plants into three-halfpenny pots. 

 Great care muft be taken not to break the 

 ball, for that would greatly retard their 

 growth ; for as the plants are mi f ted be- 

 fore the roots mat, or any fmall woolly 

 ftufF grows, there is no occafion to difturb 

 the roots to break their fmall fibres, which 

 will grow as foon as they are fhifted into 

 larger pots. 



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