t68 The Gardtker's Nkw Director. 

 niontli, whc'.i is frequently fevere, ("o as to require all 

 Your art to proie6t yuur plants iVoni cold, and foine-. 

 times from too hot a inn, they n\ui\ bs gradually ad^ 

 iniited both to air and warnith. 



About the beginning ct .df)/-!! (a few days fooner or 

 later, as liie feafon may permit) it will be proper to 

 fhii'c vour your.g plants into loinewjiat larger pots, ob- 

 krvwi'^ the "iame precaution reipeding the oyiler- (hells, as 

 beicre. Ycvir pots and mould being ready, turn out the 

 young plants gently, and be careful to keep the earth 

 around their roots. Then put a little frt-rr^ mould into the 

 bottosv, or tlie pot, and, having pUu-eil your plant upon 

 it, till up all the hollow parts with the fame. While 

 vou ar- about th'.s work, examine their roots very par- 

 ticularly, and, if any feero periihed, the old mould muft 

 he cleared away, and the'decayed part cut oiT. All de- 

 cayed leaves v.m\\\ be ftripped off, (not cut) at the 

 fame lirne. This will make roc.:n for the new fibres 

 to Jlrike freely, and obfcrve that the if tin earth, with 

 which you fill iiie pots, be not too wet. The plants 

 being thus fhifted, you fhould h;ive a frcfh bed ready 

 to receive them, made with dung and covered wiih tan, 

 as beif.rtr dirc8.ed. In this bed, place the plants in or- 

 der, the tallctl at tlic brick part of the frame, and the 

 loweft in front. 



As foon as the plants receive the benefit of the heat 

 of this new bs ci, arid the weather is mild, it will be 

 proper to water ;hem all over the lops. This will wafli 

 away the htth, fettle the earth to the plants, and greatly 

 nroiVK'te their growth. Continue to cover them lightly 

 ;;t nii'hls, liiul to give tiv^m air in the day-time, when 

 the weather pcTiw's. Vov it i:; with tlitft-, as with 

 the unima! world : ir they are too clofdv confiricd, they 

 will becoiiie tcncier and feeble, and the lefs capable 

 of prcxlucing fruit in perfeClion. In the fpace ol three 

 or fonr weeks the heat of this bed will be confiderably 

 abated,. It muft then he renewed by a lining of freili 

 dung". For though it doi^s not ug^'fy how little your 

 rhiris c;rovv in the winter, ic> rhev do hut Rir at all, yet 

 ii Pirir ,he a principal part of your care to encourage 

 snd ftti ward the growth of them, from the month of 



