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little or none in the south aspect in the 
middle part of the day when the sun is out 5 
but I would take care at this season, was I 
absent from home, to leave some careful per- 
son, to cover well up as early as three o’clock 
in the afternoon ; and on the first week in 
January there would be no impropriety to 
add an extra mat or two, but this I shall 
entirely leave to my reader’s own discretion. 
If the weather has become mild and open 
about the 18th or 21st of January, your Auri- 
cula plants at this time are very diy, if not so, 
they ought to be, from the caution I have here- 
tofore given : you must allow them to have 
but very little rain, and not too much water 
from the water-pot during November and JDe- 
cember. If that be the case, you may now' 
about this time (18th or 21st of January) give 
them some water, or allow them to have three 
hours moderate rain, provided it comes from 
the south-west, and let it be repeated eveiy 
other day till the mould has got moderately 
moist, as I have no desire to have them very 
wet just yet, 
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