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in pots, I recommend placing the pots on a back flue, in 

 a tin tray, about two inches deep, and half filled with wet 

 sand, giving an abundant supply of water, but not sufficient 

 to produce rottenness by its stagnation. I find the growth 

 of Crinums, which also like a moist heat, to be prodigiously 

 rapid, with that treatment. I should suggest a mixture of po- 

 rous stones, orbits of broken pots, with old tan, or such peat 

 as contains a portion of half decayed wood, and a garnish of 

 moss to the pot, as preferable, for parasitical plants, to the 

 loam which some of our books have recommended. 

 I am, 



dear Sir, 



Your's very truly, 



William Herbert. 



Spoforth, 

 July 28, 1820. 



