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months, so adverse to the general efforts of 

 young vegetable life, 



It may be very well supposed that every gar- 

 dener will have in readiness his stock of the 

 different sorts of mould necessary to be used in 

 this business ; such as loam, peat, well rotted 

 dung, vegetable mould, sand, &c; all of which 

 intended for this purpose, should be finely sifted^ 

 and kept separate until wanted for use. A 

 quantity of pots should also be prepared by 

 cleaning, if they have been before occupied, but 

 I should prefer new, and if what is commonly 

 called the old fashioned or flat pot be neatly 

 made, that is, to be something wider at the rim 

 than deep, and contracted to about two-thirds 

 of its depth, in width at bottom, inside measure; 

 it is I think the best for this use ; because the 

 youncr seedlings not having a body of roots, 

 sufficient to exhaust the quantity of moisture 

 which might be retained, in the large portion 

 of earth necessary to fill the perpendicular sided 

 pots, it would iu consequence be liable to be- 

 come sour and coagulated; and thereby be- 

 come extremely injurious to the young plants, 

 by producing moss, and other filth, and also oc- 

 casioning the tender fibres to rot whenever they 

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