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 leaves will be fcorched, to the great prejudice 

 of the plants, and the fruit will be lefs delicate 5 

 but if they have too much water, and the glaffes 

 apened too much in the day-time (as fome have 

 injudiciouQy done), the plants will fuffer as 

 much that way; for, upon proportioning the 

 quantity of air, and water equally, depends 

 the whole fuccefs. 



In the middle of this month you may begin 

 to take out of the ftove fome of the hardier forts 

 of Aloes, and other fucculent plants, placing 

 them at lirft in the green-houfe, where they 

 may have a large fhare of air to harden them 

 for a few days ; then they m^y be placed abroad 

 in a fhady fituation, where fnails and other ver- 

 min are not in too great plenty ; for when they 

 are expofed to the violence of the fun as foon as 

 they are taken out of the houfe, they change 

 colour, and appear unfightly, fo they fliould be 

 inured to it by degrees : but if fnails or Hugs 

 ean come to them, they will gnaw their leaves, 

 and gready deface them. After the ftove is 

 thinned of fome of thefe hardier forts, the 

 other more tender plants fliould be placed at a 

 greater diftance on the ftands, and cleaned from 

 filth, by which they will enjoy more air, and be 

 rendered ftronger, and more vigorous \ and fuch 

 of them as will bear the open air in the middle 



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