Continue to act as advised lately. Care and caution in the application
of water are more especially required, as there is not a single feature
in the cultivation of plants during the winter in which the amateur is
more likely to err, and by reason of which a greater amount of injury
is sustained, than in the application of water either in its fluid or
vaporous state. If applied to the soil in superabundance, the roots,
being inactive, are certain to sustain some degree of injury; and if
it is applied in excess to the atmosphere in the form of vapour, the
exhalations from the leaves of the plants will be checked in consequence
of the density of the medium that surrounds them when they will be sure
to suffer.