April.'] ROOMS — DIRECTIONS, ETC. 295 
APRIL. 
We remarked last month that, about this season, where it 
is convenient, an eastern window is more congenial to plants 
than a southern. The sun becomes too powerful, and the 
morning sun is preferable to that of the afternoon. West is 
also preferable to south. Some keep their flowering plants 
in excellent order at a north window. But the weather is 
so mild after this that there is no difficulty in protecting and 
growing plants in rooms. They generally suffer most from 
want of air and water : the window must be up a few inches, 
or altogether, according to the mildness of the day. And 
as plants are liable to get covered with dust in these apart- 
ments, and not so convenient to be syringed or otherwise 
cleaned, take the first opportunity of a mild day to carry 
them to a shady situation, and syringe well with water such 
as are not in flower; or, for want of a syringe, take a 
watering-pot with a rose upon it; allowing them to stand 
until they drip, when they may be put into their respective 
situations; or expose them to a shower of rain, but avoid 
allowing them to be deluged, which would be very inju- 
rious. 
DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTS BROUGHT FROM THE GREEN- 
HOUSE. 
Any plants that are brought from the green-house during 
the spring months ought to be as little exposed to the direct 
rays of the sun as possible. Keep them in airy situations, 
with plenty of light, giving frequent and liberal supplies of 
water. Plants may be often observed through our city du- 
ring this month fully exposed in the outside of a south win- 
dow, with the blaze of a mid-day sun upon them, and these, 
too, just come from the temperate and damp atmosphere of 
a well-regulated green-house. Being thus placed in an arid 
situation, scorched between the glass and the sun, whose 
heat is too powerful for them to withstand, the transition is 
so sudden, that, however great their beauties may have ap- 
peared, they in a few days become brown, the flowers tar- 
