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observed the whole period they remain in the 

 house, their own observations on the state of 

 the weather being their constant guide. 



Water should also be plentifully administered 

 when they are first taken into the house, as the 

 dry board, on which they now stand, (a cir- 

 cumstance which I have already had occasion 

 to mention,) as well as the elevated situation, 

 and free circulating air, occasions them to 

 require more than when they stood on the 

 moist earth ; however, by no means go to the 

 extreme, giving it only when evidently neces- 

 sary. 



It is a common, but in my opinion, a very 

 erroneous practice, to place pans under the 

 pots, indiscriminately, and by many they are 

 regularly filled with water, twice, or thrice a 

 week, or perhaps every day, whether the 

 plants may want it or not ; and this they are 

 pleased to term a saving of labour; and it 

 eventually becomes so in fact ; for they have 

 seldom so much care, and trouble on their 

 hands, in the spring, many of the most curious 

 plants being killed by this treatment : for 

 although it may not perceptibly injure the 

 coarser kinds, its pernicious effects on the 



