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are transferred into larger pots, and are commonly 

 shifted into -hotbeds, or pits heated with stable-dung, 

 in which they are found to prosper exceedingly. Air is 

 given every day, and is copiously admitted as soon as 

 the sun's rays have acquired considerable power. During 

 summer, the average morning temperature may be from 

 70° to 75° Fahrenheit, but in sunshine it may be allowed 

 to rise to 85°, 90°, or even more. The heat is main- 

 tained by adding occasional, linings of stable-litter, 

 and when it is exhausted, the plants are transferred 

 into other beds or pits, more recently made up, and in 

 which fermentation is going on. In flued nursing-pits, 

 the management is precisely the same.- The bottom- 

 heat is -aided by fresh additions of tan*- Asnotliing is 

 to be dreaded from damp, where there is a command of 

 fire-heat, more copious waterings may be given, and the 

 plants may be syringed overhead, or slightly steamed, 

 by throwing water on, the flues. It is not very common 

 to shift the plants in the nursery during summer; but 

 it is a good rule to have recourse to that operation as 

 often as the roots begin to mat on the sides of the pot. 

 Before the end of autumn the young plants become 

 vigorous. The lower part of the st;ilk 'Should then be 

 thick, the centre or funnel formed by. the leaves should 

 be upright, open, and rather short, and the leaves them- 

 selves not long nor very numerous, but broad, stiff, suc- 

 culent, .and free from contortion and deformity. To- 

 wards the end of autumn, the plants arc taken into the 

 succession-pit, which, in fact, is only a nursing-pit on a 

 large scale. The temperature for winter should be 

 about 60°. About the middle of March, they are shifted 

 into pots nine or ten inches in diameter. At this 

 period, it is not uncommon, in compliance with the 



