586 THE GllEEN-HOUSE [JUNE. 



manner of the others, as shall be thought most pro- 

 per. 



Care of the Plants set out in May. 



The plants set out last month, must be duly at- 

 tended to with water ; whether plunged in the earth, 

 or placed on a floor of gravel, &c. as then noticed. 

 Those plunged in the earth will not require water 

 so often as those not plunged ; but they should be 

 looked over once in two or three days, in dry, hot 

 weather, and should have water according to their 

 wants. They should always be watered in the 

 evening ; for if watered in the morning, the water 

 is soon dried up, or partly so, by the heat of the 

 sun. If dews be falling in the evenings, they need 

 not be syringed, nor be watered over head ; but 

 otherwise, if this were done, it would tend to their 

 advantage. However, many people let the hardy 

 kinds, plunged out in the above manner, take chance 

 of the weather in this respect ; and do not even 

 water the plants at root, except in very severe 

 droughts. 



But the plants not plunged, must be duly refresh- 

 ed, both at root and over the foliage, (excepting suc- 

 culents, if these be set out), every evening at least. 

 They should first be watered at root, that each may 

 have the quantity proper for it, according to its na- 

 ture ; and then the whole should have a dewing 

 over the leaves from the rose of the watering-pot. 

 This should generally be done about five or six in 

 the evening, and regularly in dry weather. But in 

 extremely hot weather, it will be necessary to look 



