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healthful. In mild weather you muft let air 

 into the houfe, without which the plants will 

 alter their colour, and fometimes eaft their 

 leaves ; but this muft be done cautioufly at 

 this feafon. You muft alfo refrefh them with 

 water as often as you find it neceffary, but give 

 it to them fparingly ; for it is better to give it 

 them often, and in fmall quantities, than to 

 over water them at this time of the year ; bc- 

 caufe it may prove very hurtful to them, efpe- 

 cially if bad weather ihould fet in foon after, 

 and no fun appear in the day time to dry the 

 damp, as is often the cafe at this feafon, when 

 there are hard frofts ; at which times^ there 

 may be a neceffity to keep the houfe clofely 

 fhut up for feveral days -, fo that the moifture 

 of the earth in the tubs and pot, will greatly 

 add to the damp of the air. 



The hardy fucculent plants muft have as 

 much air as poffible in mild weather : for if 

 they are too clofely fhut up, they often caft 

 their leaves, and appear unfightly, efpecially 

 the Sedums, Cotyledons, Cacalias, and Me- 

 fembrianthemi, which, w^hen drawn too much, 

 will not appear handfome, nor produce near fo 

 many flowers, as thofe which are kept more 

 hardy. 

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