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 the old earth is 10 be wafliecl otT. in order to re-pot them ; 

 finl fill the pot hall full or a little more, with the coivi- 

 pofc iuft prefcribed; then cut a little off the extremity of 

 the root of the plant, and if you obfcrve, that it is white 

 without any yellow or brown fpots in it, the plant is found, 

 but if you perceive any of tiiefe fpots, you mull cut as 

 long as they appear, and when your plant is ready, let the 

 eartl) rife in the middle of the pot, whereon place the /iu- 

 r/Vr//i^, fprcariing down its fibres, which are to be covered 

 with the compofi: rifing to the fetting on of the leaves, 

 then place the pot in a veffel of water liaif way deep, 

 ■when the water will afcend to the root, which you will 

 obferve by the earth fpotting black, then it is to be fit 

 in the fhade, fo as not to have the fun for one raontli at 

 lead, keeping them always moift about their fibres, but 

 not wet. Your plant in a month will flrike root, uhen 

 it muft not have much water, but rather allow it to get 

 rain, and that but moderately, and not in fudden dafhes, 

 it mufl: alfo be defended from fudden blafts of wind, and 

 florms; but in modtrute weather it mufl be expo- 

 fed to a free air, foft (howers, evening and morning 

 <]ews, ISc. Should the leaves of the plants be perceived 

 to droop, cover them with pots or fmall hand-glaffes, 

 (except when moderate fhowers fall,) until they recover 

 their ftrength, and you obferve them growing. If thefe 

 plants offer to flower in autumn, they may be allowed 

 to run their ftems up to their heighth, then nip them off 

 belovv their flower- buds; but this you m'j{l not do, un- 

 til ycu perceive a new heart nfing l-y the fide of their 

 flower-ftems, when they are not to get any rain or wa- 

 ter, for ten or fifteen days, but what you give them. 



In this fliaded fituation, and under this management 

 they mufl; remain until the 20th of October) when they 

 ihouln be placed in your Auricula frame. 



Your pl-ants being in your frame, ycu are to keep them 

 in a growing ftate; and when fro(l: (that bane to vegeta- 

 tion) Cpreads its dominion over our climate, you mull 

 endeavour to fuftain your plants in that vegetation they 

 had attained to, and in fuch proportion as the inclemen- 

 cy of the winter vvill permit. 



The humidity of the air in winter will keep your plants 

 in a fufncicnt moifl {late, wl ich is all that is now requi- 

 red, but if from an accidental ftate of the weather, you 



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