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called by some the carrot root, may be grown 
so long as to require shortening ; in this case 
the plant must be taken out of the pot, and the 
earth entirely shaken from it; you wall see 
what is necessary to be done ; shorten the 
rot root, if necessary, for if you suffer it to 
remain too long, it will either get rotten at 
the end, and always keep the plant weak, or 
wall be too long for an ordinary pot ; 
it would want shifting every year, and never 
produce fine strong flowers. Reduce their 
small roots to about ten or a dozen, 
those that are nearest the leaves, they will 
sufticient again to support and vegetate your 
plant. If you perceive any canker or rotten- 
ness in the root, cut it boldly to the quick, 
it appear fresh and lively, and no spots or 
symptoms of decay remain ; put on the w’ounds 
a little mastich to heal and di 7 them ; 
as many fibres to it as possible. 
Mastich is made with the following ingre- 
dients : set it over a gentle fire in a 
brown pipkin or a large gallipot, and 
stirring it with a small stick or iron spoon : 
2 oz. Bees w’^ax, 
2 oz. Turpentine, 
2 oz. White rosin. 
The wound may also be exposed to the sun. 
