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for sale, they should be immediately potted into 

 pots called 32's (these are generally 7 inches deep, 

 by 6 over at the surface), in a compost of turfy 

 sandy loam and well-rotted manure, of the pro- 

 portions given in p. 184; the loam must not 

 be sifted, but merely chopped into pieces as 

 large as a walnut: the fine mould, which will, 

 as a matter of course, result from this chopping, 

 must not be separated from the pieces of turf, but 

 all must be well mixed with the manure or leaf- 

 mould. The pots should then be filled about one- 

 fourth with broken pieces of crockery or potsherds, 

 the plants taken from the small pots, and the balls 

 of earth gently pressed so as to loosen them ; place 

 each plant in the centre of the large pot ; press 

 the earth well round them ; give a soaking of 

 water and plunge them in sawdust or tan, in 

 some sunny exposed place, where they may have 

 all the sun our fickle climate will give them. 

 They may remain plunged till early in October, 

 when they should be removed into the greenhouse, 

 but a fortnight before taking them into their 

 winter-quarters, lift every pot, and place it on the 

 surface of the bed in which they have been 

 plunged : their roots then become hardened, and 

 bear the dry warm air of the greenhouse without 

 injury : they should at this time also be pruned 

 into any handsome desirable shape (a compact 

 bush is perhaps the prettiest), or, if tall plants are 

 required, the long shoots may be fastened to a 



