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refill moiflure, and is the belt application 
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to prevent further progrefs of the decay 
yet difcovered. Whenever the lower 
leaves of the plant, next the furface of 
the earth, become yellow, or dried up, it 
is proper to ftrip them off, in a direflion 
downwards. On re-planting, a pot fuitable 
to the fize of the plant is to be fele6led; it 
is to have a hollow oyfter {hell placed with 
its convex fide upwards, over the hole at 
the bottom, and then to be about three 
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parts filled with the compoft, higher in 
the middle than at the fides : the plant 
is next to be placed thereon, with its 
fibres regularly diftributed all round, fo 
as nearly or quite to reach the fides of 
the pot, which is afterwards to be filled 
up with the compoft, adding a little 
clean coarfe fand clofe round the item 
of the plant, on the furface : the bottom 
of the pot fhould then be gently ft ruck 
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