LETTER V 



A Cool Glass-house Sun-heat Stoking Gardeners Accumula- 

 tion of Sun-heat under Glass Fig-tree Strawberries Chrys- 

 anthemums Natural v. Artificial Blooming Yellow-hammers 

 at Play Gnats. 



i6M March, 1894. 



DEAR MARCO I get a large amount of 

 pleasure from my little greenhouse, especially 

 in the spring, when, though the sun shines 

 often enough, the keen winds prevent me 

 from enjoying the outdoor garden. I have 

 no heating apparatus to this house ; on the 

 whole I think it suits me better without. I 

 know what an enlarged scope artificial heat 

 gives to one's horticultural and floricultural 

 operations, in the way of grapes, orchids, 

 .ferns and hot-house things in general ; but I 



