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have pushed up their flower-stems, they must no 

 longer be exposed to showers of rain, but the soil 

 must to the end of the blooming season be preserved 

 in a moist state. As the pips, if frosted when about 

 to expand, will never bloom flat, the frame must be 

 carefully protected, as first described, every night. 

 In watering the plants great care must be taken to 

 avoid the foliage, and if a drop has accidentally fallen 

 into the crown of the plant, it must be extracted by 

 means of a camel-hair pencil, or decay, probably, will 

 be induced. A small watering-pot, with a spout a 

 'foot and a half long, bent at the end, and then con- 

 tracted to the diameter of a goose-quill, should always 

 be used for the purpose of watering. When the pips 

 are just expanded into bloom, the frame, which has 

 hitherto been exposed to a southern aspect, should be 

 removed into the shade, or what is more feasible, the 

 plants may be placed under hand-glasses, in a calm 

 and shaded part of the garden, with the benefit of 

 two hours morning sun. The pots are not placed on 

 the ground, but on shelves graduated according to 

 the fall of the glass lights : slide doors are made in 

 the front and back of the frame, by which means any 

 quantity of air can be admitted, freely to circulate 

 around the bottom, sides, &c., of the pots and plants ; 

 it is most injurious to admit air in the common way, 

 by lifting up the glass lights, as the cold air is thus 

 suffered to blow directly upon the expanding blooms ; 



