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them a gentle check, and effectually prevents 

 their over-luxuriant growth. These super- 

 abundant ri)ots may also with safety be cut 

 away, but should not be torn off, as many will 

 do, sooner than have the troubie of procuring a 

 knife. 



As the heat encreases with the advancing 

 season, the different species of insects, to which 

 these departments are liable, will multiply in- 

 credibly ; therefore, it will be particularly ne- 

 cessary to attend to this circumstance, and to 

 be actively bent on their destruction, when, and 

 as often as convenience will admit, otherwise, 

 if they are allowed to harbour on any plant, or 

 place, and to complete their ovaria, or nests, 

 they are of so amazingly prolific a nature, that 

 they will soon over-run all the plants in the 

 house, and infallibly despoil them of a consi- 

 derable share of their beauty ; indeed in many 

 instances utterly destroy the plant, by extract- 

 ing the whole of those juices which constitute 

 its necessary support : besides creating a tire- 

 some, and almost endless labour to eradicate 

 them, when allowed to arrive at maturity ; but 

 when once mastered they may by an unremit- 

 ting attention, be easily kept under. 



