57S THE GREEN-HOUSE [APR, 



February; which see. Plants affected with the 

 coccus may be washed with soap and water, at any 

 time, as also hinted at in February. 



Of the Annuals intended for Furnishing the Green" 

 House in Summer. 



The annuals sown in March, (which see), will re- 

 quire to be shifted into larger pots than those they 

 were pricked into, about the middle or latter end 

 of the month, according to their forwardness. But 

 it should be observed to repot or shift them in good 

 time, that is, before their pots get very full of fibres, 

 otherwise some kinds are apt to start into flower, 

 which would be trifling and insignificant. They 

 should be shifted into pots of about five or six 

 inches in diameter, at this time ; and next month, 

 (as will then be noticed), into full-sized pots, in 

 which to flower. 



The balsams should be put into very rich, light- 

 ish earth : that is, one half loam ; one fourth vege- 

 table mould ; an eighth part rotten cow-dung ; and 

 an eighth part fine sand. The cockscombs, and the 

 globe and pyramidal amaranthuses, should be shift- 

 ed into a soil considerably stronger ; that is, three 

 fourths loam ; an eighth part vegetable mould ; and 

 an eighth part rotten cow-dung. The dung, in ei- 

 ther application, should be reduced quite to earth. 



The plants must be replaced into a slight hot- 

 bed, a flued pit, a mild stove, peach or grape-house, 

 &c. ; where they may be properly cared for, till the 

 green-house be made ready for their reception, by 

 the removal of its plants to the open air, next month 



