3 74 ^^ Gardeners Kalendar. Dec. 

 Euphorbia, Cotyledons, ©*f. but the Myrtles, 

 Amomum Plinus,Leonurufes, Oleanders, Bays, 

 Adhatoda, with many other woody plants, 

 muft be frequently watered ^ but in cold wea- 

 ther they fhould not have too much given them 

 ^t a time, but rather give it them often, and 

 in lefs quantities, fo as only to prevent their 

 leaves from ihirinking and curling up. 



The fires in the ftoves muft now be care- 

 fully kept up, as well in dark foggy weather as 

 in fevere froft ; for if the air is damp, it is 

 equally injurious as a (harp air to the plants ; 

 fo that in this you muft be direfted by a well 

 graduated thermometer, as to the degree of 

 heat which the plants require. 



The Ananas, or Pine apples, muft have a 

 good ihars of heat, otherwile they will not 

 produce fruit the following fummer : they will 

 alfo require to be refrefhed often with water, 

 which iDOuld be given to them in fmall quan- 

 tities at this feafon, which (hould be placed in 

 the ftove to warm, at leaft twelve or fourteen 

 hours before it is ufcd : where this watering is 

 lieglecfled, or unfkilfully performed, the plants 

 are often fo checked, as not to be recovered m 

 fome months after. 



The tender exotick plants, which are plung- 

 ed in the bark- bed, muft now be carefully 



tended, 



