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to keep them rather too dry than too 
wet, at thefe feafons, efpecially during 
winter; but a moderate degree of moifture 
is always to be preferred, except when the 
weather is feverely frofty. As too long a 
deprivation of light is at all times preju¬ 
dicial to plants, therefore, whenever the 
winter repolitory is required to be clofely 
covered up with mats, for feveral days and 
nights, with little intermiffion, no oppor¬ 
tunity fhould be loft during the middle of 
the day, if the fun fhines, to take off 
the mats in front of the glafies, in order 
to admit its light and warmth. 
Whenever the furface of the earth in 
the pots becomes green with mofs, or 
too compaft and adheftve, it will be 
proper to ftir it up carefully, about half 
an inch deep, and to fprinkle a little 
coarfe dry fand regularly upon it: this 
will prevent any great degree of tenacity 
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