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top of the plants at all times. The 
peculiar advantage arifing from this plan 
is, that when the plants require to be 
firat up from excefs of rain, they have 
at the fame time the advantage of a 
continual fupply and free circulation of 
frefh air, which paffes amongft their 
leaves in all direflions; whereas thofe 
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who are obliged to (hut up their plants 
in a clofe frame, to exclude excefs of 
rain from them, oftentimes fimt them 
up in a wet Rate, as foon as it is 
judged they have had a fufficiency: 
this is a very dangerous, though not 
unufual mode of practice, and often 
produces a mildew which is attended 
with the mod definitive confequences. 
The importance of a proper con- 
ftruted repofitory, and fuitable treatment 
of the plants, for the fummer feafon, 
will fufficiently apologize for any pro- 
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