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angles. From the 20th of March to the 20th of September, 

 shade that end of the stove by the light foliage of a Passijlora 

 Normalis, trained all over the top, but pruned so thin as to 

 admit the rays of the sun to play on the bed underneath. I 

 prefer this method to a mat, for many reasons. Let the earth 

 be always damp by gentle sprinklings of water, but never 

 very wet, except in the great heats of summer, when I should 

 be inclined to give the plant two or three drenching showers 

 all over, from a fine-rosed watering-pot, shutting up the 

 house at night full of steam. Besides these hints, which I 

 presume to offer to so many able gardeners, another yet 

 remains to be mentioned, without a close attention to which, 

 all labour, in the cultivation of this and every other plant, 

 will be in vain ; that is, to suffer no insects to attack them : 

 neither is this difficult. Aphides, the Green and Black Lice, 

 may be destroyed as soon as they appear, by a few clouds 

 of tobacco smoke. Coccus Adonidum, the Mealy Insect, is so 

 tender, as to be killed by the slightest pressure of a soft 

 brush. Coccus Hesperidum, the Brown Turtle Insect, requires 

 more labour, and a wet sponge : but if the plants infested are 

 often fumigated with tobacco-smoke, it sickens that insect 

 also, especially the very young ones ; as I can speak from 

 repeated experience at Chapel-Allerton. Acorus Telarius,the 

 Red Spider, often so terrible a scourge to our tender exotics, 

 cannot exist a moment in an atmosphere where sulphur, in 

 a volatile state, is suspended : and a very small quantity 

 washed upon the flue where it is warm, but not very 

 hot, suffices : for that substance must never be ignited. 

 Thrips, the Skipping Insect, is the most difficult to subdue, 



