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price that he could purchase the same plants for in March 

 or April, for the florist always wants room in his green- 

 houses, and can better afford to sell a dozen Geraniums 

 in March for $1.50 than for S3 in May. Besides, the 

 plants if purchased in March, and shifted into larger pots, 

 and allowed plenty of room to grow, would be far better 

 than could be purchased at any price from the over- 

 crowded tables of the florists in May. The care of such 

 plants in the green-house is very simple. The board 

 benches or tables .Z*7and Gr should be covered with two 

 inches of sand, upon which to stand the pots; place them 

 so far apart that the leaves will not touch; water thor- 

 oughly whenever the surface of the soil in the pot ap- 

 pears dry, which will be every day in hot weather. 

 Ventilate by letting down the sashes, more or less, as the 

 day is warm or cold, whenever the thermometer indicates 

 75 or 80; in other words, keep the temperature in the 

 day-time as near as may be to 60 or 65, as marked by a 

 thermometer placed in the green-house where the sun will 

 not strike it. Burn half a pound of damp tobacco stems 

 on the floor of the green-house twice a week, to destroy 

 the aphis. One dealer in Maine informed me that from a 

 green-house so constructed, 30 feet long by 11 feet wide, 

 placed against the south side of a high board fence, he 

 sold last spring, in six weeks, sufficient bedding-plants 

 that he had purchased, and vegetable plants that he had 

 raised from seed, to afford him a profit of $200, or nearly 

 double the cost of his green-house. 



These green-houses can also be used for all the purposes 

 of a hot-bed, thus: Soil placed to the thickness of four 

 inches on the benches will grow fine plants of all varieties 

 of vegetables if the proper time in sowing the different 

 kinds is attended to presuming that the green-house has 

 no artificial heat other than that produced by the sun's 

 rays which pass through the glass. In this latitude, cab- 

 bage, cauliflower, and lettuce had better be sown about 



