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nine inches diameter at the top, and seven deep, with fresh mould 
entire. 
The bed at this time should be renewed with a little fresh tan, 
and forked up in order to promote its heating, and the pots plunged 
therein immediately. The Hot-house should be kept pretty warm 
till the heat of the tan begins to rise, as it will be the means of caus- 
ing the plants to strike both sooner and stronger. 
As soon as the bed gets warm, give the plants a sprinkling of wa- 
ter over their leaves; and when you perceive them to grow, give 
water according as they require it; and as the weather increases ia 
heat, give air in proportion. 
Various Shrubby and Succulent Hot-House Plants. 
The various kinds of shrubby and succulent exotics, will require 
the same treatment this month as direttjd in the last, page 178, 
&c. but particularly observing to give them air in proportion as the 
heat of the weather increases, and water according to their respec- 
tive necessities, as noticed in Februart^. 
Propagation of Exotic Trees, Shrubs and Plants, 
This is a very proper time to sow such seeds of rare plants as you 
are able to procure: those that are in good condition and whose 
nature it is to vegetate the first season, will rise freely, but many 
kinds will not grow for three, four, five or six months after sowing; 
and others not for a year; therefore, it will be necessary to have 
patience, and to take care all the time of the whole, as well the pots 
in which the plants do not rise, as those that do; if you have room 
to plunge them into the bark pit, or into hot-beds at work or made 
for the purpose, it will greatly facilitate their growth. 
You may now propagate many kinds by suckers, cuttings, and 
layers, which should be duly attended to, particularly such as are 
scarce and difficult to be obtained. 
Raising early Flowers, Fruits, ^c. in the Hot-House. 
Pots of any desirable flowering plants may still be introduced, to 
forward an early bloom, such as pinks, fuschias, hydrangeas, roses, 
carnations, and many others. See February^ &c. 
Also pots of strawberries and vines, as in the two foi'mer months, 
to continue the supply of early fruit. 
Likewise a few more kidney-beans, &c. See last month and 
January. 
In hot-houses where vines are trained in, from plants growing on 
the outside, and conducted up under the glasses, &c. they will to- 
wards the end of this month, or earlier according to the degree of 
heat kept up, be well advanced in young shoots, having fruit, which 
shoots should be carefully trained along in regular order, and all 
the improper and superfluous growths cut away. 
