POTTING AND SHIFTING. 
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Plants with soap and water, as before directed, (syr¬ 
inging them frequently,) which will keep them from 
doing much injury. 
POTTING AND SHIFTING PLANTS. 
When a Plant is first set into a pot, it will con¬ 
tinue to grow till it has filled the pot full of roots. It 
will then produce its flowers, which will be devel¬ 
oped in proportion to the strength of the Plant, the 
size of the pot, and the quantity of earth the Plant 
has to grow in; therefore Plants in small pots will 
flower the sooner, if the Plant is of a kind that has 
the property of flowering young. Otherwise it will 
make its first growth, then apparently rest to perfect 
its growth, and as soon as the Plant has done flower¬ 
ing, it will commence growing again till it has 
exhausted the soil in the pot and the roots become 
matted round the sides. It must then be repotted or 
it will suffer. 
In potting or shifting Plants,—having the soil and 
pots ready provided,—begin by placing a piece of 
broken pot over the hole at the bottom, then put in a 
handful of small pieces of pots or gravel stones for 
drainage, then put in some of the soil over the drain¬ 
age, more or less as may be required, to have the 
Plant as deep in the pot or a trifle deeper than it was 
in the one it came out of, and leaving about an inch 
