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before, and place the flat window-glass over the tops 

 of the pots, for a week or two longer, shading them 

 from the sun in the middle of the day. Water as 

 often as you see occasion. If your plants thrive and 

 do well, in a month or five weeks more you may 

 transplant them a second time into fresh compost, 

 which will very much encourage their growth, where 

 they may remain till August, when you may plant 

 them singly in 60-cast pots, or put three round the 

 edge of a 48, for next spring bloom. 



1 Non omnia possumus omnes.' VIUGIL. 

 Yet I am satisfied if you pursue the mode which 

 I have laid down, you will succeed, and there is cer- 

 tainly more pleasure in rearing and nursing a hand- 

 some bantling of your own, than in adopting that of 

 another, even though it should be gifted with supe- 

 rior charms. 



