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Make layers of Myrtles, Pomegranates, 

 Jafmines,Paffion flowers, Capers, and other ten^ 

 der (hrubs, obferving to lay fome mulch over 

 them, and fupply them fi'equently with water, 

 which will greatly facilitate their rooting; but 

 it muft not be given them in too great quan- 

 tities. 



In the middle of the day, if the weather 

 prove hot, you fhould fliade the glaffes of the 

 flove and the hot-beds, where your choice ex- 

 otick plants are placed, and let them have free 

 air, in proportion to the warmth of the feafon ; 

 and fuch of your exotick plants as want fliift- 

 ing, fhould now be removed, and fome of them 

 placed in larger pots, giving them frefh earth, 

 and then plunge them into the hot-bed again, 

 obferving to fhade the glaffes until they have 

 taken frefli root. 



Toward the latter end of the month 

 plant cuttings of Mefembryantheipums, Se- 

 dums, Cotyledons, Cereufes, Euphorbiums, 

 and other fucculent plants, laying them in a 

 dry fnady place a week or fortnight, according 

 as they are more or lefs fucculent, before they 

 are planted, that the wounded part may be 

 healed over, otherwife they are fubjefl: to rot ; 

 r.!vd when they are planted, they fhould be 

 placed (fuch of them as are hardy) in a (hady 



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