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bv one. By cleaning the furface of the leaves, it will open 

 their neceflary pores, and be ferviceable to the whole 

 plants, and render them beautiful ; and let the myrtleji, 

 and other fmall-'eaved kinds, be cleaned from dull. Sec by 

 watering all over their heads. 



Where myrtles, or other hardy green-houfe fhrubs, 

 hiive Ib-aggling or irregular heads, they may now be head- 

 ed down, or have the ftraggiing branches pruned to 

 fome regular order ; by which means they will put out 

 plenty of ilrong Ihoots nearer the Hem, and form full and 

 regular heads in three months time. 



Let their heads be cut as clofe as may feem neceiTar}': 

 and, after they are cut down, then take a little of the old 

 earth, at the top of the pot out, and fill it up with the fame 

 quantity of frefii earth, and give a liitle water ; ^alfo let 

 the head and llcm be well watered, to cleanfe them from 

 filth. But if the plants require ihifting into L-^rger pots, 

 let them be taken out of their prefent pots, and pare the 

 matted roots off, and trim away fome of the old earth from 

 the outfide of the baH ; then place the plants in the larger 

 pots, and fill up the vacancy with new earth. 



After the above operation, the plants will foon begin to 

 break forth with freili vigour. 



Inarching. 

 Inarch exotics ; this is now the proper time to begin to 

 {>^rform that method of grafting, on any of the green- 

 iioufe trees or ihrubs. 



Orange, lemon, and citron- trees, may be propagated 

 by that method ; alfo pomegranates, and many other 

 lorts. 



Rut the trees raifed by this method, never make large 

 nor handfome plants; therefore it is hardly ever done, but 

 on fuch plants as cannot be eafily raifed any other way, 

 except it is done by way of curiofity. 



Some, by way of curiofity, will inarch a branch of an 

 orange or lemon-tree, that has young fruit on it, on one 

 of the common orange flocks, and it will be well united by 

 the end of Auguft, and may then be f:*parated from the 

 mother plant; and there will be a new tree with fruit on 

 it, raifed in the fpace of four or five months time. See 



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