April.'] ROOMS — DIRECTIONS, ETC. 295 



APRIL. 



"We remarked last montli that, about this season, where 

 it is convenient, an eastern window is more congenial to 

 plants than a southern. The sun becomes too powerful^ 

 and the morning sun is preferable to that of the afternoon. 

 West is also preferable to south. Some keep their flowgring 

 plants in excellent order at a north window. But the wea- 

 ther is so mild after this that there is no difficulty in pro- 

 tecting and growing plants in rooms. They generally suffer 

 most from want of air and water : the window must be up 

 a few inches, or altogether, according to the mildness of the 

 day. And as plants are liable to get covered with dust in 

 these apartments, and not so convenient to be syringed or 

 otherwise cleaned, take the first opportunity of a mild day 

 to carry them to a shady situation, and syringe well with 

 water such as are not in flower; or, for want of a syringe, 

 take a watering-pot with a rose upon it; allowing them to 

 stand until they drip, when they may be put into their re- 

 spective. situations ; or expose them to a shower of rain, but 

 avoid allowing them to be deluged, which would be very 

 injurious. 



DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTS BROUGHT FROM THE 

 GREEN-HOUSE. 



Any plants that are brought from the green-house during 

 the spring months ought to be as little exposed to the direct 

 rays of the sun as possible. Keep them in airy situations, 

 with plenty of light, giving frequent and liberal supplies of 

 water. Plants may be often observed through our city dur- 

 ing this mouth fully exposed in the outside of a south win- 

 dow, with the blaze <if a mid-day sun upon them, aijd these, 

 too, just come from the temperate and damp atmosphere of 

 a well-regulated green-house. Being thus placed in an arid 

 situation, scorched between the glass and the sun, whose 

 heat is too powerful for them to withstand, the transition is 

 so sudden, that, however great their beauties may have 

 appeared, they in a few days become brown, the flowers tar- 



