May. The Gardeners Kalendar. 171 

 Turn over your heaps of ^ompofl:, to pre- 

 vent weeds growing on them ; and the oftener 

 this is done, the better will they be mixed, and 

 fweetened for ufe. 



Bring out all your hardy exotick plants, 

 fuch asCiftufes, Geraniums, Phylica, Celaftrus, 

 Sorrel tree. Amber tree, Ardotis's, Herman- 

 nias, Yellow Indian and Spanifh Jafmines, 

 Polygala frutcfcens, Hypericum from Minorca, 

 Fabagos, Rhufs, Oleanders, African Scabiou- 

 fes, Phlomis, Spring Cyclamen, Lentifcufcs, 

 with feveral other forts, which will now bear 

 the open air ; but you (hould obferve to place 

 them in a (hady fituation for a fortnight ; for 

 if they are immediately expofed to the full fun, 

 it will change their leaves to a brown colour, 

 and caufe the plants to appear very unfightly. 



Thofe exotick plants which are to be con- 

 tinued longer in the houfe, muft now be 

 brought forward to the windows, that they 

 n)ay have a great (hare of frefh air (efpecially 

 ifthefeafon be warm); otherwife they will 

 draw very weak, and change to a pale languid 

 colour \ and where the plants have been drawn 

 too weak to bear the fun, if the glafles are 

 (haded in the heat of the day, it will be better 

 than to expofe them too much to the fun until 

 they are more hardened. You (liould alfo ob- 

 ferve 



