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part of September. Therefore, about a fort- 

 night before that time, they should be regu- 

 larly examined, and any roots that may have 

 extended themselves through the holes at the 

 bottom of the pots, cleanly cut away,* with 

 a knife or some such instrument : this tends 

 to stop the too luxuriant growth, and being 

 executed at a proper period, before their final 

 removal, they have time to recover themselves 

 from the partial check they may have received 

 by it ; which w T ould come doubly severe, 

 if, deferred until the time of removing them 

 into the house ; the transition from the cool 

 bottom on which they stood, to the dry boards 

 of the green-house stage, being so materially 

 different. 



It will be also requisite to have the flues 

 examined as to their cleanliness, and tried 

 with a smothering fire, lest there should remain 



* The cutting of the extraneous roots away at this 

 season, is not likely to be of such serious consequence to the 

 plants, as if done when shifting, as the ball of root is pre- 

 served undisturbed within the pot, yet in some of the more 

 luxuriant species that may have been plunged in the. 

 borders, it will be preferable to break the pot rather than 

 destroy the roots, and of course the plant put into a larger 

 one immediately. 



