12s THE FORCING GARDEN. 
haps, a five-inch pot. But now that our eyes are opened 
to the various requirements of plants, we devise better 
means for growing them, so as not only to produce more 
handsome specimens, but also of a dwarfer character, 
which displays their colours to greater advantage. 
A forcing house of the dimensions and construction 
of the one for the Pink and Carnation is sufficiently 
capacious for a man to get a living from, with the addi- 
tion of a few pits or frames; and I will now show how 
it is to be done. This house will hold, first, 1060 well- 
grown Geraniums, in five-inch pots; to be succeeded 
by 860 Balsams, in eight-inch pots, for sale as plants, 
or for seed; or 800 Begonias, or 1,200 Fuchsias, or 
1,200 various plants; all of which may be valued at 
ls. each, besides the Geraniums, which may be put at 
the same figure at the least. 
The Balsams may be estimated at 2s. 6d. per pot, 
whether grown for seed or sold as plants. In each case 
the Geraniums will be gone from the house before the 
succeeding batch of plants will require the room. The 
Geraniums will have to be nursed and housed in the 
same place all the winter, and flowered there; but the 
Balsams need not be raised before April, and can then 
be reared in a good frame or pit, and be potted off into 
small pots, in readiness for shifting into the eight-inch 
ones as soon as the Geraniums are gone. 
I have always found Messrs. Waite, Burnell, & Co. 
supply good reliable articles, and if at any time anything 
did not prove so good as might be expected, they were 
always ready and willing to throw something off the 
cost. I have dealt with them for many years, and can 
vouch for what I say. This firm seems to me to be the 
