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Spring Earthing, 
FEBRUARY. 
About the second week in this month (if it 
be mild weather) or as soon after as the wea- 
ther will permit, you should new dress and 
clean your plants, by carefully taking as much 
earth out of the top of your pots as you can 
without damaging or disturbing the roots, and 
putting in fresh from any of the Composts pre- 
pared ; this will be of great seiYice to your 
plants, it will strengthen and invigorate them 
much. Be careful not to fill your pots too full 
of the fresh earth, but leave at least half an 
inch from the tops empty, that the n^aterings 
given to your plants may sink to the roots, and 
not run over the edges of your pots ; by doing 
this you will likewise, with more ease, be able 
to take off the rotten and decayed leaves round 
the plant. Take the offsets out of your small 
pots with all the ball of earth about them, re- 
move a little of the earth from the top, and 
place them into larger pots for bloom also; 
this should be done in open mild weather ; and 
your plants 7iow should be exposed to all the 
gentle rams in this months and at the same 
