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 may pafs off before ihe windows are clofe Ihut 

 in the evening, otherwife the damp occaficned . 

 thereby will injure the plants. 



You (hould alfo* frequently pick off all de- 

 cayed leaves from the plants, and not permit 

 them to fall among the pots and tubs, which 

 make a litter in the houfe, and, as they rot, 

 will infed: the air, which being imbibed by the 

 plants, will caufe them to change the verdure 

 of their leaves to a pale fickly complexion. 



As the cold advances, the fires in the ftove 

 fliould be increafed proportionably, being care- 

 ful not to over-heat the air, left thereby the 

 plants (lioot too freely, which is injurious to 

 them at this feafon ; nor ihould the air be too 

 cold, left their leaves decay and fall off, and the 

 extreme parts of the plants perifli : therefore 

 the fuccefs in managing tender exotick plants, 

 greatly depends on keeping the air of the ftove 

 in a proper temperature of heat, and in duly 

 proportioning the quantity of water given to 

 them at this feafon of the year. 



In winter pick off all decayed leaves from 

 the tender plants in the ftove, and clean their 

 leaves and ftems from filth, which they are ve- 

 ry fubjed: to contract, and wafti off all infecSs, 

 which often infeft many of the forts, but ef- 



pecially 



