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THE FORCING GARDEN. 



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roots much injured, will be the greatest injury they possibly 

 could sustain. 



Towards the end of the month, therefore, when all danger 

 of an over-heat has passed, they should be plunged up to the 

 rims of their pots, taking care during the operation to set 

 them level, so that they will contain water sufficient for their 

 nourishment until they be again regulated. The tan or leaves 

 should be kept clear of the surface of the mould in the pots, 

 so that the same effect may be. attained, as well as to enable 

 the operator to determine whether they be or be not in want 

 of water. When replaced in the bed, they should have a 

 little water to settle the mould about their roots, and in a fine 

 day be gently dewed over-head with the syringe, to clear them 

 of any filth which they may have contracted during their re- 

 moval and replunging. The water now used for this purpose, 

 as well as for watering at their roots, should have the chill 

 taken off previously to using, by mixing a sufficient quantity 

 of hot water to the cold, to render it nearly equal to the at- 

 mosphere of the house. 



The temperature should now experience a further reduction 

 of from 70° or 68^ to 64° or 66°, at which it should be kept 

 during the winter. Attend to mat or otherwise cover up such as 

 remain in frames or pits heated by dung-heat, in order to be able 

 to keep up a temperature equal to the above degree. In plung- 

 ing the plants into their winter habitations, they may be placed 

 nuch closer together than they have hitherto been, as being the 

 means of getting in as many plants as possible, with the view of 

 lessening the necessity of so many different compartments. 



Continue to admit fresh air as freely as the state of the 

 weather and the heat in the pits will admit of. It is better 

 that the pits should be under their regular temperature for a 

 few hours, than that the stagnated air should be too long con- 

 fined, observing to shut up early enough in the afternoon so 

 as to admit of the heat of the sun ; raising the temperature 

 sufficiently before the pits are covered up. The waterings 

 must now be gradually lessened in quantity, and once every 

 six or eight days will be found sufficient, observing now to 

 give ilie necessary waterings in the forenoon of the finest days 

 until the return of spring. The syringing over top should 



