520 CREEN-HOUSE DISPLAYED* 



Alfo if any of the Ihrubby or tree kinds 

 cafually become of a weakly Hate, with naked 

 or thin ftwggling heads of branches, they 

 may be headed down lefs or more in March or 

 April; then either ihrfced into larger pots, or 

 tubs, with fome frefti mold, as already ex- 

 plained, or if not fhifted, frefli earth the top^ 

 and down the fides a little way, as mentioned 

 above; the plants will break forth into frelh 

 fhoots, and form a new head by the- end of 

 Summer. 



Or any weakly plants headed down, and 

 fhifted as above, if they could be conveni- 

 ently plunged in a moderate bark-bed, &c. in 

 a glafs cafe, for a month or two, it would 

 forward them more efFeftually. 



Sometimes Green Houfe plants, by fome 

 mifchance, drop all their leaves in Winter, 

 and frequently the branches alTume a decay- 

 ing ftate, it is generally proper in that cafe to 

 prune moft of the branches moderately fhorr, 

 and they will more effectually break forth 

 llronger iptoj frefli verdure of leaves and young 

 (hoots, to form a new head. 



Or fome forts, as myrtles, geraniums, &c. 

 having loft their leaves in Winter or Spring, 

 then about May, when fettled weather com- 

 mences, may be turned out of the pots witii 

 the balls entire, the heads cut down, then 

 plunge the roots into the ground in a warm 

 border they will recover, and be furnifhed 

 with good heads by Augull or September, 

 fhen may be taken up wiih balls of earth, and 

 xe- potted ready to place in the Green- Houfe 

 in Oi^tobcr, for the Winter, 



Methodf 



