122 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 

 Is. 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 



