HORTICULTURAL STRUCTURES. 131 



be most happy to see the pros and cons fairly grappled with by 

 men of science and horticultural experience combined. 



For my own part, I believe that before many years pass we 

 shall have structures of this class exceedingly multiplied, and 

 persons establishing new gardens on a bold and well-concerted 

 plan, covering at once an extent of ground in a way that now 

 might be thought chimerical. 



There seems a growing desire for orchard houses ; in other 

 words, a desire to command a crop of fruit, bidding defiance to all 

 casualties. I believe this to be perfectly attainable, and if so a 

 low and continuous ridge and furrow structin'e, being thrown over 

 a considerable extent at once, will doubtless be made to form 

 a system complete in itself, and highly conducive to the dignified 

 appearance of fine gardens. 



XT I. — On the CuLTtVATroN of Hyacinths in Glasses. 

 By the Rev. W. B. Hawkins, F H.S. 



(Read at a Meeting of the Society, held March 21st, 1854.) 



The cultivation of Hyacinths in glasses is so universally prac- 

 tised, and affords so much amusement and gratification to pei'sous 

 who do not otherwise engage in floricultural pursuits, that perhaps 

 a few remarks on a more easy and successful method of producing 

 these very beautiful flowers may not be without interest to the 

 Society. 



I have, for several years past, raised these flowers in water- 

 glasses in the manner usually adopted, namely, occasionally 

 changing the temperature by removing the glasses from a cold 

 room, when the weather became more severe, to an apartment 

 with a fire, and at a more advanced period of growth, keeping the 

 plants entirely in a warm room until the flowers fully develop 

 themselves. I found, however, as many persons, I believe, 

 experience, great difficulty in preventing the stem and the leaves 

 from growing too high, and thus diminishing the size of the 

 flower by diverting its proper nutriment, and also in preserving 

 the stem of the plant in an upright position. 



I determined, therefore, to try a different plan this last season, 

 and, accordingly, after keeping the bulbs in water-glasses from 



K 2 



