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or three inches should be made for the settling of 

 the plant also. 



Observe to set the plant with its proper side to 

 the sun ; then, while one person holds the ball in 

 the exact place in which it it is designed to stand, 

 let another put mould carefully under and round 

 every side thereof. In closing the mould to the 

 ball, care should be taken to preserve the roots 

 of the plant. The extreme points of the fibres 

 being exceedingly brittle, are very subject to be 

 injured, unless great care be taken in the perform- 

 ance of this operation, Raise the mould about one , 

 inch above the top of the ball, and form the surface 

 into a kind of semicircular bason, in which it will 

 be expedient to lay a thin mulching of rotten dung, 

 and to give a gentle watering to settle the whole. 

 Then take off the moss, paper, &c. and let the top 

 of the shoot be carefully fastened to the rafter. 

 Thus the business is completed. 



To direct the very identical kinds of Vines to 

 be planted, may, perhaps, be deemed an act of 

 officiousness, since every one, who is at the ex- 

 pence of an hot-house, has an undoubted right to 

 consult his own palate ; and more especially as I 

 have, in a former part of this work, pointed out 

 the kinds most proper for training in a pine-stove. 

 I shall, however, just beg leave to observe, that the 

 more vigorous-growing kinds ought not to stand 

 next each other ; and that, if the different species 

 of black, white, blue, grizzly, red, and amber, 

 were judiciously mixed, they would have a much 



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