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the above-mentioned methods, they should be care- 

 fully revised ; and any that need, should be fresh 

 potted, as directed in March. Others should be 

 fresh -earthed at top ; by removing a little of the 

 old soil ; stirring up the surface a little with the 

 point of a small stick, but not so deep as to injure 

 the roots ; and by filling the pot with fresh mould, 

 to a proper height, according to its size. 



Tall plants, and all those of a straggling kind, 

 should be carefully supported by the help of poles 

 or sticks, in order to resist the bad effects of high 

 winds ; a matter evidently more necessary now, 

 than when they were in the house. Yet stout, low 

 plants, require nothing of the kind ; I only mean 

 such as are in danger of being broken or hurt by 

 the wind. ' 



Of the. Annuals raised for furnishing the Green- 

 House in Summer. 



These plants should now be shifted into their full 

 pots ; that is, the balsams should be put into pots 

 ten or eleven inches diameter at top, and twelve or 

 fourteen inches deep ; and the globes, &c. should 

 be put into pots two inches less, respectively as to 

 width and depth. The same kinds of earth, as ad- 

 vised at last shifting of these plants, should now be 

 used ; and a handful of broken pots, or roundish 

 gravel, should be placed in the bottom of each pot, 

 to serve as drainings. 



They may afterwards be placed on the stages, &c. 

 in the green-house, which is now supposed to be 

 ready for them, being emptied, or nearly emptied, of 



