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potted, provided their roots are kept moderately 

 moist. Let us look for a moment to the arid 

 mountains of the Cape, &c. and there we shall 

 find them exposed to its full glare, and perhaps 

 without water for months : their roots however 

 can penetrate deeper there than they can pos- 

 sibly do in pots, so that life is preserved, and 

 as soon as the periodical rains commence, they 

 resume in a very little time their verdure, and, 

 " breathe their balmy fragrance all around." 



Some gardeners' practice is to plunge them 

 amongst the shrubs and flowers of the plea- 

 sure ground ; this answers pretty well with the 

 strong growing kinds ; such as myrtles, gera- 

 niums, coronillas, &c. old plants, or supernu- 

 meraries that will not be wanted to house in 

 the Autumn : and even has a very pretty effect 

 when judiciously done ; but it will by no 

 means do for the tenderer species. Therefore, 

 upon the whole, the most unexceptionable si- 

 tuations, are such as at the same time afford a 

 moderate portion of shade, and are so situated, 

 as to break the force of those strong gales, 

 which frequently blow in the summer, and early- 

 Autumn months, and yet allow that free circu- 

 lation of air so necessary to the well-being^ of 



