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forwarded, if they were afterwards placed, for a few 

 weeks, in a mild bark or dung heat, in a stove or 

 hot-bed, where they might be duly watered, and 

 have plenty of air admitted to them. 



With respect to training the plants to sticks and 

 poles (a thing often done too indiscriminately), it 

 is only necessary for such as are feeble, or of a trail- 

 ing kind ; for all plants that stand upright of them- 

 selves, look better without such help. Many plants 

 are disfigured by poles and sticks, that have no need 

 of them. Such as have, should be dressed to them 

 in a free and natural manner ; observing to conceal, 

 rather than to exhibit the sticks, &c. to view. 



Of arranging the Plants on the Stages, c. 



The plants being potted and trimmed, should 

 again be replaced on the stages, except such as re- 

 quire to be particularly shaded in a corner, &c. as 

 hinted at above. 



The reason why the shelves of the stages in the 

 green-house are elevated one above another, is not 

 merely that the plants may be the better exhibited 

 to view, but also that they may have an equal share 

 of sun and light. It naturally falls to be observed, 

 then, that they should be placed, the smallest on 

 the lower shelves, and the largest on the upper ones, 

 by which they may still more equally enjoy the 

 beams of the sun. This must be understood of 

 the plants in general ; for there are some that re- 

 quire to be placed in the shade of others, at parti- 

 cular times, and according to their natures. 



