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weather will never injure these plants, pro^ 
vided they are dry. I beg to repeat, they are 
not that tender plant as many persons round 
London suppose them to be. Towards four 
o’clock in the afternoon the lights should be 
pulled over the flowers at this season, and shut 
close down, with about two or three mats thick 
thrown over them, and so to remain till about 
eight or nine o’clock next morning, when, if 
it does not rain, snow, or hail, they should be 
exposed to the open air in the usual way ; but 
if it rains, take otF the mats only, this gives 
light to the plants, which they delight in, and 
at the same time give plenty of air behind. 
As I have given you the best information I 
am able to do for October ^ November^ and De- 
cember, during this next month, January, 
and most likely the greater part of February, 
so much depends upon the depth of snow and 
the intense frost. Some winters are more fa- 
vourable than others ; if the season has now 
the appearance of open weather, you may treat 
your plants nearly in the same manner as the 
two last months j but if you have snow, and 
the weather is now a severe frost, you must be 
rather more cautious as to the exposure; a 
trifling frost is of no serious consequence to 
these hardy plants, but I do not recommend 
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