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hard wood, or by the ufe of the fingers, 
be feparated from the old plant with 
fafety, and re-planted round the fides of 
a fmall pot, filled with the fame comport, 
till they become fufficiently grown to 
occupy pots feparately: if a fmall hand 
glafs be placed over each pot containing 
thefe newly planted offsets, it will caufe 
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their fibres to grow more rapidly ; but it 
fhould not be long continued, as it 
would have a tendency to draw and 
weaken the plants. 
In the beginning of May, as loon as 
the operation of potting is performed, 
the plants are to be placed in an airy, 
fhaded fituation, but not under the. drip 
a • 
of trees: the following is recommended 
as a proper plan for the fummer repofi- 
tory, viz. In the firft place, there fliould 
be a bed of coal-afhes formed in the 
place where it is intended to be erefted, 
about 
