OF THE VINE. 
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It is very obfervable that a cutting ftrikes with greater free- 
dom againft the fide of the pot than in the middle of it, for the 
pot, being porous, imbibes the moifture, and thereby prevents 
the cutting from being overcharged with it, which is not the 
cafe, when a cutting is planted in the middle of the pot. 
I always plant the cutting on the North lide of the pot, put- 
ting a label to denote the fpecles on the oppoiite fide j and 
whenever the plant is (hifted into a larger fized pot, or re- 
moved to a different fituation, I conftantly obferve the fame 
rule. — Thus the plant being raifed from a fingle eye, it rifes as 
it were from feed, and the foregoing rule being obferved, it 
will always (land with the fame fide towards the fun ; and by 
being planted on that fide of the pot which ftands to the 
North, it will admit of being kept in the fame pofition when 
planted out for good ; whereas it fhould be confidered, that 
were it to be planted on the oppofite fide, (viz. that which 
Hands next the South) the plant muft either be reverfed in its 
pofition when planted out for good, or there would remain 
the entire breadth of the ball of earth in the pot between the 
wall and the Hem of the plant. — Plants in general, but parti- 
cularly thofe kept in Hot-houfes, or that are intended to be 
planted againH walls, are benefited more by a ftridl obfervance 
of this method, than is commonly imagined. The flioots, 
leaves, and even the bloom-buds of plants, all form themfelves 
in the mofl advantageous pofition to receive as much of the 
fun’s influence as pofTible. 
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