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casual irregularities occur in the shoots or branches, prune or 
regulate them as may be required, and cut away any decayed 
parts; observing the same general directions as in the two pre- 
ceding months. 
Propagating the Plants. 
You may still continue to propagate such plants as you desire 
by cuttings, layers, suckers and seeds in the manner directed in 
March and April. 
Any time in this month you may plant cuttings or slips of cac- 
tuses, euphorbiums, aloes, agaves, sedums, mesembryanthemums, 
stapelias, and other succulent plants, laying them in a dry, shady 
place a week or tea days, according as they are more or less suc- 
culent, before they are planted, that the wounded parts may heal 
over, otherwise they are subject to imbibe too much moisture and 
rot. When they are planted they should be placed in the shade or 
plunged in the tan-pit till newly rooted, giving them a little water 
as necessity may require. The hardy sorts may be planted in a 
bed of light sandy earth, where, if they are screened with mats for 
some time, they will freely take root. 
Bringing out the Hot-House Plants. 
About the twenty-fifth of this month you may, in the middle 
states, begin to bring out the hardier sorts of hot-house plants; if 
they had been removed into the green-house eight or ten days pre- 
viously, it would be of service, as there they would gradually be 
prepared, hardened, and become in a good condition for a removal 
into the open air. The more tender kinds should not be brought 
out till the first week in June, but if previously removed into the 
green-house for a week or ten days it would be the better way; 
always observing, wherever they are, to give them abundance of 
air to harden and prepare them for the transition. 
In the eastern states the above work is to be deferred, in every 
instance, from one to two weeks later, according to climate and the 
local situation of the place; and to the southward of the middle 
states it may be done somewhat earlier. 
Should you have no pine-apples in your hot-house, and there 
are plants permanently growing in any beds or borders therein, 
the roof-lights should be totally taken off when the other plants are 
out, that these may receive the full benefit of the open air during 
the summer months, &c. 
As to the manner of placing and treating the pots when and after 
being brought out, I would advise the same as recommended for 
the green-house plants, which see. 
You must be very careful when you plunge any of your pots to 
make it a particular point to turn them around in their seats once a 
week, in order that such roots as run into the ground through the 
holes in the bottoms may be broken off; for though these would, 
for the moment, encourage the growth of the plants, when you 
