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there will be danger of their being driven unfeafonably 

 into fruit in the winter. 



Towards the end of Augujiy when the nights begin to 

 be cold, the glafles muft be fhiit down clofe. But then 

 it will be neceflary to let them have fome air in the day 

 time, when proper opportunities (hall offer. And be 

 particularly careful not to let them have too miKh wa- 

 ter at this time. 



About the end of September your fucceflion plants will 

 be nearly full grown. It will be then expedient for you 

 with all diligence to get ready the pit in the fruiting- 

 frame for their reception. If for this purpofe you make 

 ufe of dung covered with tan, it muft be put into the 

 pit a few days before you plunge your pots into it ; 

 but if you intend to fill it entirely with tan, it muft 

 be put in a full week before you venture your plants in 

 it. In that time the bed will have obtained the due de- 

 gree of heat by fermentation, and will be rendered fit 

 for the reception of them. In plunging thefe plants, be 

 ftill advifed to place them with order and regularity, 

 which will greatly add to the beauty of them when they 

 come to be ripe. As foon as the bed fhall have impart- 

 ed a proper warmth to the mould in the pots, your next 

 bufinefs will be to water them lightly over their leaves, 

 which will be a confiderable refrefhment to them, and 

 fettle the mould to their roots. 



If this bed be made entirely of tan, the plants may 

 remain in it till the middle of February ; but if it be 

 compofed of dung covered with tan, they will require a- 

 nother frefh bed about the middle of December. Then 

 to have the two pits with the moveable frame in readi- 

 nefs, will be very convenient for re-plunging your pots 

 without their receiving any check. 



You muft be careful to cover the frame with a fail- 

 cloth during the winter feafon, as you have already been 

 dire8:ed. Another caution, laid before you in the be- 

 ginning of this treatife, is, that as foon as you per- 

 ceive that the heat of the dung or tan is abated, you 

 begin to line the back part of the frame on the outfide 

 with dung. This lining muft be laid three or four 

 feet wide at the bottom, and made Hoping to the top, 



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