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appearance ; besides, being dry, it will serve 

 to imbibe a good quantity of the superabundant 

 moisture. 



As the Spring advances, they will require 

 considerable attention to keep them in proper 

 order on account of their great encrease of 

 growth, more particularly the climbing plants, 

 trained against the walls or trellis work ; these 

 should be daily attended to, and trained in their 

 proper places ; directing their course to those 

 parts of the house, which, from their nakedness, 

 appear to want them most : also these species 

 of plants being remarkable free growers in 

 general, it will frequently be found necessary 

 to thin them by cutting away any unsightly 

 parts, and those branches most destitute of 

 flowers ; by which means, there will be suffi- 

 cient room for the young vigorous growth, and 

 these should be trained in regularly as they ad- 

 vance, otherwise, they will attach themselves 

 to the first object they meet, and render it diffi- 

 cult to dress them neatly afterwards. 



Slugs, snails, and other vermin are very fond 

 of harbouring among the leaves of these plants 

 when permitted to grow crowded ; also under 

 any low bushy plants in the pit, whence they 



