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weeks afterwards. They should be placed in a sha- 

 ded situation, as behind a wall, high hedge, or among 

 tall shrubs, for two or three weeks ; in order to 

 harden them by degrees, and enable them to stand 

 the full force of the sun's rays the better. While 

 here, they must be duly attended to with water ; 

 and if the situation be exposed to high winds, the 

 larger plants should be sunk, or be half-sunk into 

 the earth, the better to secure them from being up- 

 set. 



Some appropriate and lay out a spot in the shrub- 

 bry or flower-garden, on purpose, for the reception 

 and arrangement of these plants ; and others form 

 exotic shrubbries with them, by plunging them 

 about the borders, or in the alleys between the beds 

 of bulbous flowers, in a sort of random manner. 

 In this respect, every one may indulge his fan- 

 cy. There is no impropriety in the one mode, or in 

 the other ; at least in so far as regards the hardier 

 sorts. Others, as the young and finer kinds of 

 heaths, many small delicate plants, the succulents, 

 &c. are perhaps better treated by being placed on a 

 floor of dry gravel or ashes, or on one composed of 

 a mixture of both, in a sheltered situation; where 

 they can be more particularly attended to, accord- 

 ing to the state of the weather. Were they plunged 

 in the ground, they might be injured by too much 

 moisture in the time of heavy rains or floods ; but by 

 being collected into a small compass, as above, they 

 can readily be attended to with water, or be de- 

 fended from heavy rains, as they may require it. 

 Previously to arranging the plants, in either of 



