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recommend new sticks, at least once a year, to 

 hot-house plants in particular; as the old ones 

 very often harbour more or less of the several 

 pestiferous insects, which infest these depart- 

 ments. This done, let the plants be set on a 

 level spot, together, and moderately watered 

 with a fine rose pot, held at a distance above 

 their tops so as to give the leaves a good rinc- 

 ing ; but observe to give no more water than is 

 sufficient to settle the fresh mould to the roots, 

 and by no means to slush, or give the surface 

 that puddled appearance, so very disagreeable 

 to be observed in departments, where neatness 

 should be the uniform and leading principle. 



Having thus finished the first division, let 

 them be immediately taken to the stove, to be 

 set on the fresh turned tan for the present, and 

 those, that remaired there, taken to the shed to 

 be shifted and treated in the same manner as 

 the others. 



When the whole are shifted, they may be 

 regulated according to height, and partially 

 plunged for a few days ; setting the pot about 

 half its depth loosely into the tan, to avoid the 

 danger that attends too violent a heat arising 

 in the pit ; which is frequently the case, when 



