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PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



On receiving the plants from the nursery, if in the fall, 

 they should be potted, as above, in four-inch pots, giving 

 two inches of crocks at the bottom for drainage, and nearly 

 filling the pot with the earth, but highest in the middle, 

 and spreading the roots as much as possible all around 

 alike. The soil is only just to cover the roots, and to be 

 pressed gently to them, and in this state, after watering, to 

 settle the loam about their roots, they should be placed in a 

 common garden frame, upon a hard bottom, into which the 

 waste water, when refreshed, cannot soak, but with a very 

 gentle slope, that any water which runs through the pots 

 may run away. In the winter management, the chief 

 object is, to give all the air they can have in mild weather 

 by taking the lights off; to give them water very seldom, 

 and never till they absolutely want it. If to be grown in 

 pots, they should be re-potted early in twelve-inch pots, 

 two or three plants in a pot, using the soil above directed. 

 Let there be at least three inches drainage. In putting 

 them in those large pots, let the ball of earth be turne'd 

 out whole, rub off a little of the surface, and, after having 

 filled the large pot high enough with the compost, place the 

 ball so that the collar of the plant, which is just above the 

 surface of the old ball, be within half an inch of the edge 



