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weather changes cold and cloudy, and always in proper time in the 

 afternoon. 



The best time of the day for the admission of fresh air, is from 

 about twelve to one, two, or three o'clock ; but for the time of open- 

 ing or shutting the glasses, let the weather be the guide. 



OF KIDNEY-BEANS IN THE HOT-HOUSE. 



Now plant some more kidney-beans of the early white, cream- 

 colored, yellow, or speckled dwarfs, &c., in pots or boxes, and place 

 them in the hot-house to succeed those planted last month; or if none 

 was then planted, this is a very successful time, superior to the former 

 month, for planting a good hot-house crop, and managed as directed 

 in January, page 111. 



Do not forget to refresh with water those kidney-beans which were 

 planted last month ; they will require it two or three times a week : 

 give also necessary waterings to the young beans advancing for suc- 

 cessive crops. 



OF BLOWING ROSES AND OTHER PLANTS EARLY. 



You may now, in the beginning of this month, set pots of roses 

 and honeysuckles, &c., in the hot-house } or pots of bulbous roots, 

 carnations, pinks, and double sweet-williams, or of any other desirable 

 flowering plants, either of the shrub or herbaceous kinds, which you 

 desire, by way of curiosity, to bring to an early bloom, supplying 

 them, when in growth, with plenty of water. 



Likewise, about the middle and end of the month, you may intro- 

 duce more of the same sort of flowering-plants to produce flowers in 

 regular succession. 



You may also introduce pots sown with seeds of any desirable 

 annuals, of moderate growth, to flower early, such as mignonette, 

 balsams, ten weeks stock, &c. &c. 



OF CUCUMBERS IN THE HOT-HOUSE. 



Where it is desired to raise early cucumbers in the hot-house, 

 some seed may be now sown as directed last month, or young plants 

 planted therein from any common hot-bed. (See Hot-house for 

 January.) 



EARLY STRAWBERRIES. 



You may now introduce into the hot-house, pots of the scarlet and 

 alpine strawberries, either to succeed those of last month, or as a 

 first introduction. Let them be two years' old bearing plants ; place 

 them near the glasses, or plunge them in the bark-bed to forward 

 them earlier, giving proper supplies of water. 



If some fresh plants are taken into the hot-house every three 

 weeks, you may obtain a constant supply of early fruit till those in 

 the open ground ripen. 



