34 The Gardeners Kalendar. Jan. 

 traded filth, it (hould be carefully waflied oftj 

 as (hould infedts, wherever the plants arc in- 

 fefted with them, other wife they will increafe 

 aftd fpread over ail the plants in the houfe : 

 this fiiould be performed with a wet fponge. 



If the bark in the bed has fettled unequally (as 

 it often happens) fo that the pots do not keep 

 their pofition, it will be proper to take them out 

 of the tan-bed in a fine day,and ftir the bark, 

 adding a little frefh tan thereto (which (hould 

 have been in flielter a week or ten days before 

 it is put into the bed to drain off the moif- 

 ture) and then plunge the pots down again : this 

 will renew the heat of the bed, and be verv ufe- 

 ful to the plants, but the plants muft not be ex- 

 pofed to the open air while this is doing, at this 

 feafonof theyear. 



The tender forts of Aloes, Cereufes, Eu- 

 phorbias, and Melon thidles, fliould now 

 have very litde water given to them ; for 

 moifture at this feafon is very iiijurious to them, 

 efpecially where the air of the houfe is not 

 kept in a due temperature of heat. 



Pknts in Flo^ver in the Green-House 

 II fid Stove. 



Double Nafturtium, Phylica, Solidago with 

 a branching corymbus, Geranium with a fcarlet 



flower, 



