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and in every situation, while their leaves are growing, such 

 discretional rose waterings, when the sun is not shining, as 

 they may reasonably appear to require : but never until the 

 earth they grow in becomes dry : nor any whatever, after 

 their leaves begin to look yellow. After this period, it is 

 necessary to defend them from all humidity, except dews, 

 and gentle rains, until the end of August or beginning of 

 September. 



From weeds, worms, slugs, and snails, it is almost need- 

 less to observe, they should constantly be kept as clear as 

 possible. And if the surface of the earth in their boxes is 

 occasionally stirred with the point of a knife, or fine piece 

 of stick, it will never fail to be attended with beneficial 

 effects, and to invigorate the bulbs : operating, no doubt, 

 as a sort of hoeing, and like that important practice, as the 

 writer of this pap r conceives, proving salubrious to vege- 

 tables of every denomination, not only by lightening the soil, 

 but by admitting new accesses of atmospheric air towards 

 their roots ; and thereby facilitating, and stimulating their 

 absorbent inspiration of its oxygen : without a due supply of 

 which, all vegetables, as well as animals, eventually become 

 feeble and sick. 



If, notwithstanding the precaution of thinly sowing the 

 seeds, the plants in any of the seed boxes should have 

 grown so thickly together, as to have incommoded each 

 other, it will be desirable to have such taken up ; and re- 

 planted immediately, further asunder, in fresh earth, and 

 about three quarters of an inch deep. But if they are not 

 too crowded, they will require no shifting this, their first 

 autumn ; but merely about a quarter of an inch of fresh 



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