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appearance : I would strongly recommend the 

 practice of having a few inches of clean saw- 

 dust laid over the tan for the purpose of plung- 

 ing the pots in, it being so much more cleanly; 

 a very desirable object where neatness is re- 

 quired, which, in most gardens, is a particularly 

 essential part of the curator's conduct. 



All the plants, which require the aid of tan 

 heat, being properly plunged, and the remain- 

 ing ones regulated on the different benches, 

 shelves, or kirb-stones; let the place be well 

 cleaned out, when little more will be necessary 

 for a few weeks, than watering when requisite, 

 squirting, steaming, and attention to the degree 

 of heat necessary to be kept in the house, at 

 this season. This should in general be about 

 sixty degrees, of Fahrenheit. If it is kept much 

 lower, it will considerably retard the plants in 

 recovering their vigour ; and if many decrees 

 higher, the free growing kinds will soon over- 

 top, and materially injure the weak and more 

 tardy sorts, unless prevented ; besides them- 

 selves becoming unsightly, the consequence of 

 being drawn, or forced into long weak ungainly 

 stems. 



But the best means of avoiding the above 



