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are fearful of watering them in this way ; but 
it is a mistaken notion; for in their growing 
season they delight in being moderately water- 
ed with soft water; and more especially, so 
soon as their blossoms begin to open, they 
sfiould then be kept moderately nmist to en- 
courage the truss. You will, perhaps, scarcely 
credit it, but in this particular state of the 
weather I have watered moderately twice and 
thrice a day, and more particularly if the wind 
blew full south or south-west. The treatment 
at this period, and that in the month of De- 
cember, is far different, it is then requisite they 
should be altogether kept as dry, Mmost parched 
for want of water. 
Be careful to cover up veiy warm, for one 
night’s severe frost would destroy your whole 
year’s care.— On the 18th of April, 180/, the 
frost was so intense (it being a late season) that 
it got through the wood of my frame to the 
bloom ; the glass at top was covered up with 
two blankets, six mate, besides hay, &c. how- 
ever, it injured about eighty of my blooms — so 
much so, that they became quite set, and never 
would expand and get flat. But several of my 
brother florists, that season, suffered in the same 
way, to the number of eleven or twelve, with- 
in my knowledge. Ever since, I have always 
