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THE PRACTICAL GARDEN F.R. 



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removed into their summer quarters. This is a very old and 

 reasonable practice. Experience, that safe guide, sufficiently 

 proves the utility of the practice ; and some plants which are 

 even often nihabitants of our stoves during winter, are bene- 

 fited by a free exposure to our climate for at least two months 

 of the year. This practice is, however, less prevalent here 

 than on the continent, particularly in some parts of Germany ; 

 but even with us it is becoming more general. 



All those which are denominated Cape and New-Holland 

 plants, with many of those from China and Japan, are usually 

 turned out about this season, with the exception only of those 

 which are in flower, from which it is desirable to obtain seeds, 

 or when their flowers are either too delicate or rare to be 

 trusted out ; such as these are usually kept in the green-house 

 until their seeds be ripe or their flowers faded. The situation 

 in which they are placed when exposed to the sun, without 

 the intervention of glass or other protection, is of much im- 

 portance. A situation fully exposed to the sun is to be 

 avoided, as well as such as are entirely shaded ; and that 

 which is under the drip of trees may be considered the worst 

 of all. A spot moderately shaded by high walls, hedges, or 

 buildings, is to be preferred ; but where a display of pic- 

 turesque taste is to be displayed, situations in the flower 

 garden, shaded from the meridian sun, should be adopted. 

 Here, if they be placed about in natural groups, harmonizing 

 widi the surrounding shrubs and plants, the effect will be 

 imposing, and very different from the common practice of 

 crowding them up in some obscure corner, as if hiding them 

 out of sight. Plants, so turned out, should not be plunged in 

 the borders, at least the more delicate and rare species ; but 

 as the covering of the pots would be desirable, they may be 

 contrived to be hidden by covering them with moss, different 

 species of H^jpnum, &c. Two advantages naturally present 

 themselves by this practice ; first, the hiding of the pots, 

 which can never well accord with flower garden scenery ; and 

 secondly, preventing evaporation from going on too rapidly, 

 which all plants in pots are exposed to when not plunged, 

 and when much exposed to the sun, as it proceeds rapidly not 



