508 THE GREEN-HOUSE; [Sept. 
must, early in this month, be taken up and re-potted; observing to 
take them up carefully, to trim oflf the wide extended roots, cut the 
baskets away, and plant them with the entire balls in the pots or 
tubs destined for their reception; after which give them water and 
place them in some shady warm situation, till the time for housing 
them. 
Any young green-house plants raised this or last year from 
seeds, slips, cuttings, or suckers, and that are growing too close 
together in pots, &c. should, if well rooted, be transplanted in the 
early part of this month into pots, singly, and be immediately 
watered and placed in the shade for a week or two; or of such as 
are very small, two, three, or more may be planted in a pot, and 
treated in like manner. But those that have been raised from slips 
or cuttings and that are not well rooted, and consequently not much 
advanced in top growth, should be suffered to remain in their pre- 
sent pots till spring or autumn next. 
Any green-house plants propagated in the open ground, or in 
beds, during the course of the summer, should be taken up in 
the first week of this month, with balls of earth, potted and treated 
as above. 
About the middle of this month you should plant your ixias, 
walchendorfias,oxalises, gladioluses, watsonias, cyanellas, babianas, 
tritonias, massonias, melasphgerulas, antholizas, moreas, lapeyrou- 
sias, lachenalias, melanthiums, geissorhizas, with all the other 
different kinds of the more tender bulbs, either obtained from the 
Cape of Good Hope or elsewhere; especially such of them as 
shew the least disposition to produce fibres from the roots; for if 
kept out of the ground much longer, after this appearance, they 
would be greatly injured thereby. 
The proper compost for the generality of the above kinds, is one 
half rich fresh loam, one half bog earth, or earth of rotteii leaves, 
and a small portion of drift or river sand. 
They are to be planted in pots, from one to five roots in each, 
a greater number if very small, and covered about an inch deep; the 
pots are then to be placed in the green-house windows and to get 
but Very little water till the foliage appear above ground, and even 
after, it is to be but sparingly administered, for too much moisture 
would infallibly rot the bulbs. 
Towards the end of the month take into the green-hoUse all your 
succulent and other tender plants, such as stapelias, cactuses, 
aloes, cycas revoluta, agaves, &c. and place them in front near 
the windows, where they can have the benefit of the sun and air. 
Collect your geraniums, at the same time, and all other plants 
that tend to succulency, and arrange them in front of the green- 
house, there to remain till it is found necessary to take them in. 
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