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When your flove has been well aired and made ready, 

 as well as your compoll, to receive your pines, they are 

 to be brought in in "Jime-, as at that feaion thefe plants 

 v:\\\ not receive any injury irom cold, and if brought by 



Tea, 



therwifc by coming out ot a warm {love, tl.ey may re- 

 ceive a fudden check, which will greatly retard their 

 growth, wl'.ich muft be -carefully av.ided, becaufe the 

 iooner the plants are fet growing in the Ipring, the more 

 time they will have to gain flrength, in oider to produce 

 large fruit the following feafon. 



You (hould not plunge the pots too clofe together in 

 this frame ; but allow them a proper diftance, that the 

 lower part of the plants may encreafe in bulk ; for it is 

 on this that tiie magnitude of the fruit depends ; becaufe 

 wl.en the plants are placed too clofe, they draw up very 

 tall, but do not obtain ftrength ; fo that when they are 

 taken out of the bed, the leaves are not able to fupport 

 themfclves ; but all the outward long, leaves will fall a- 

 way, Itaving the fmaller middle leaves naked; and this 

 fometimes will caufe them to rot in the centre. You 

 mufl: alfo obfcrve, when the- fun is very warm, to raife 

 the glafTes of the hot-bed witli flones, in order to let 

 out the fleam of the bed, and to admit frefti air; for 

 one neglefl; of this kind, in a very hot day, may de- 

 ftroy all the plants, or at leaft fo fcald them, that they 

 will not get over it in many months. It will be alfo ve- 

 ry proper, in extreme hot weather, to fliade the glafTes 

 in the middle of the day v/ith mats; tor the glalFes, ly- 

 ing fo near to the leaves of the plants, will occafion a 

 prodigious heat at fuch times. 



During the fummer-feafcn, the plants mnfl be fre- 

 quently watered ; and in hot weather, they muff have 

 Iree air admitted to them every day, from ten o'clock 

 till four; for, if they arc kept too clofe, or too dry, 

 they will receive a ciieck in their growth, when the in- 

 fects uill immediately fprtad over them; for there are 

 geneially fome of thefe infeds on all the plants, which 

 do noi much injure the plants, while they are in a 

 growing Ante ; but whenever ihey are unhealthy, the 



infeds 



