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in the manner I have before directed ; but as it 

 is there noticed, they must not be permitted to 

 grow too large before this operation is perform- 

 ed, on account of the roots being liable to inter- 

 weave with each other, and by that means, ren- 

 der it more difficult to be well executed; be- 

 sides, it may be injurious in another manner ; 

 by occasioning the plants unavoidably to har- 

 bour damps, and slugs, &c, the evil tendency 

 of which has been already, I presume, sufficiently 

 explained. 



There is one thing necessary to be remarked 

 before I have done with this article, which is, 

 that those seeds received from New South 

 Wales in general, as well as many others of 

 the South Sea Islands, and also several, parti- 

 cularly of the larger sorts, from the interior 

 parts of the Cape of Good Hope, from the 

 warmer countries of temperate America, and 

 in short, any of the climes in, or approaching 

 the same latitudes, although the plants when 

 grown will flourish and come to perfection in 

 the Green-house, yet the seeds will require the 

 aid of a hot-bed when first sown, to set them 

 in vegetation, and until they are parted and 

 established in their separate pots, then to be 

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