Jl8 OREEK-HOUSE niSP^UAYBD. 



more, and then (hifted into others a fize or 

 two larger ; thofe tubs for this occafion being 

 made ftrong, and hooped with iron, fumiihed 

 with two hooked iron handles at top, hf 

 which to carry them and the contained plants; 

 or fometimes in confiderably large plants, as in 

 fome large American aloes, the tubs required 

 are fo large and weighty, together with the 

 earth and plants therein, that they are fixed upon 

 a low-wheel carriage, in order for the more 

 convenient moving them in and out of the 

 Green Houfe, requiring feveral men to draw 

 them. 



The work of fhifting is performed, both in 

 the Spring, or early part of Summer, about 

 March, April, and May, or occafionally in 

 Autumn about Auguft and September, though, 

 for any principal Ihifting April, or early in 

 May, is a good feafon. 



In performing the requifite ihifting accord- 

 ing as it mal^be occafionally required, having 

 the larger pots, &c. of requifite fizes in pro- 

 portion to the increafed growth of the plants, 

 and a quantity of frefh earth, place fome oyf- 

 ter fhells, or tile fhreds, over the holes at bot- 

 tom, then apply fome frcih earth, draw or 

 turn the plant defigned for fhifting, out of its 

 prefent pot with the ball of earth entire, pard 

 away a little of the outfide and bottom earth, 

 and prune the dry matted fibres of the roots,- 

 aifo any diforderly growths of the head, place 

 it v/ith the ball into the new pot or tub, fill 

 up round the fides with more frefh eartfi 

 clofely about the ball, and an inch or twe> 

 ever the top thereof ^ give direS^ly a moder;\^e 



watcjing. 



