OBSERVATIONS. Vll 



Jan. 14th. Sunless day, heat 71 ; a little water was given 

 at 4 o'clock. 



Jan. 15th. Little sunshine, heat this morning 75 3 ; water 

 at 4 as usual. 



Jan. 16th. Heat this morning 72, plants in a fine state, 

 caused by the little sunshine yesterday, a little water at 4 

 o'clock. 



Jan. 1 7th. Heat 72" ; plants good, a little water sprinkled 

 over the hot-air chambers once a day, unless the heat is very 

 strong is better than more. I wish to see the plants a little 

 moist in the .morning, but a lodgment of damp on them is 

 bad, which is caused by want of heat and air ; if short of heat 

 give no water but it is bad to be short of heat for any length 

 of time ; if the flower at the point of the fruit damps off before 

 the fruit is well formed it never makes a good fruit. I attach 

 great importance to night heat, air, and moisture ; too much 

 night heat causes the fruit blossoms to open prematurely and 

 such fruit never swells kindly ; too little heat causes the 

 blossoms to damp off, and then the fruit never swells ; a 

 strong heat in the front lining is good. 



Jan. 18. The day dull and cold, 2 of frost, night and day 

 heat 72 ; plants seem to enjoy it, it appears to be just what 

 they like ; too much water is bad, if at covering-up time the 

 heat is 70 well, it will increase 3 or 4 before the morning, 

 with a little air at each light and a single mat covering, 

 which is all that should be used, unless great necessity from 

 extreme bad weather ; 74 is a fine heat in the morning when 

 the pits are uncovered. 



Jan. 19th. Five days and no sunshine, dark with little 

 frost ; fruit has swelled slowly at the expense of the plants ; 

 I never witnessed slower growth. 



Jan. 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Weather dull ; young fruit 

 seems to require a little sunshine to start them after flowering, 

 once started they will swell in dull weather. 



Jan. 23rd. Sim shone to-day a few hours, but the wind 

 was excessive cold ; a little extra covering was used, and but 

 little water given ; 10 of frost on the morning of the 24th, 

 the coldest night up to this time. 



Jan. 24th. Heat this morning 75 ; great improvement in 

 the plants from the few hours' sun yesterday ; the sun has 

 shone out the whole day ; heat up to 90 to-day the mercury 

 has been below zero the whole day in the shade ; the plants 

 had one inch of air at each light, and a small pot of water 

 was given to each light over plants ; and hot-air chambers. 



Jan. 25. There was a fall of snow in the night heat in pit 

 at 10 at night was 75; a little more air was given, there was 



