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means, rather chufing to leave fome part of the Roots uncovered, 
than to place them too much under ground ; as foon as they are fer 
water them, and keep them fhelter’d from Wind and Sun untill they 
have taken root ; after a fortnight you may by degrees acquaint them 
with the Air, and when you find they have gotten ftrength, fet chem 
abroad, The fame order is tobe ufed with fuch Layers as you fhall 
take off to plant in Cafes in Augauft. 
Commit your Cafes with orenges, Myrtles, and other tender 
Plants, betimes, before the firft Frofts, to their Winter-quarters 
the Confervatory, bucfhut them not 3 in the day-time efpecially, 
unlefs conftrained by Fogs or Frofts, which lafting long, you muft 
on fairer days acquaint them again with the Sun and Air by degrees ; 
during extreme Frofts, and when Water will freeze in your Confer- 
vatory, indefault of Stoves or raifed Hearths, you muft attemper: 
the Air with Pans of Charcole, efpecially at night, let the Coles be 
half burnt out before the Pans be placed, and then not fet too near - 
the Plants, In March, whenthe great Frofts are paft, open the 
- doors, and give them Sunand Air by degrees, alittle at firft, which 
increafe with the Spring ; about the end of April fet them forth, 
and wath them clean (efpecially the Greens) with a Warering-pot 
from duft and cobwebs ; and you muft not forget while they arem 
the houfe to water them gently, efpecially in November, and after 
long Frofts, but let not the water touch the Leaves of any of the 
Greens, and chufe rather to give houfed Plants too little water than 
too much, ° As foon as the Heats begin, coverthe Harth m the Ca- 
fes fome confiderable thicknefs with Mofs, it will keep the Earth 
moift and from clinging, and water them as you find caufe, Every 
Spring and Autumn, that is, a little before you fet forth your 
Plants, and before you houfe them, you muft take fome of the © 
Earth out of the Cafes, and open the reft with a Fork or other fit 
tool, not hurting the roots of the Plants, and fill them up again 
withrank Earth, two parts Dung, well rotted and preferved for that 
and fuch like purpofes, | 
“oT hefe are the Rules obferved by Mr.Fobn Refe, the ingenious 
Keeper of the Garden at E(fex-honfe in the Strand, where is now to 
be feen under hisregiment a moft noble Collection of the choiceft 
Greens and rareft Shrubs that are planted in Cafes, in a moft healthy 
and flourifhing condition, ~ 
CHAP, 
