540 THE GREEN-HOUSE. [OCT. 



clean, and wipe dry, all the stage, benches, floor, ^c. after which 

 the whole will assume a neat, gay, lively, and becoming appear- 

 ance. 



The plants now should have as much free air as possible, during 

 the continuance of mild weather, for if kept too close the damps oc- 

 casioned by a copious perspiration, would cause many of their leaves 

 to become moufcty and drop off, s.nd besides, they would be less 

 hardy on the approach of winter: therefore, on every warm or mild 

 day k'_ep the windows optn ; and even on mild dry nights, during 

 the remainder of this month, you may slide down the upper front 

 lights, so as to admit a little air at top. But observe to keep the 

 windows close shut, in cofd weather, frosty nights, and during the 

 continuance of cold rains or fogs. 



It will still be necessary to water the plants frequently, but 

 moderately, especially the shrubby kinds ; the succulent sorts will 

 not require it so cflen. 



Pick off from tim^ to time, all decayed leaves, and keep every 

 part of the house constantly clean and free from filth of any kind. 



The deciduous Green-house plants, such as the Lagcrstrcsmia 

 indica, Punica granata, or double flowering* pomegranate, Crotqn 

 selrfcrum, or tallow-tree, &c. may. be placed on a platform erected 

 at the back of the stage, as noticed in pa:^e 82, or they may be 

 preserved very well during the winter, in a dry warm cellar, that 

 has windows to admit light, air, cc. as necessity may require. 



Preserving Green" House Plants in Gar den-Frames. 



There are but few Green-House plants of a small size, but may 

 be preserved during winter, in great perfection, in garden-frames 

 of the following construction. 



The frame should be erected on a bed of earth in a remarkably 

 dry and warm exposure ; it should be made of strong planks, four, 

 five, or six feet high in the back (according to the size of the plants) 

 eight or nine inches high in front, and four or five feet wide, with 

 iv.l s sloping accordingly. The length should be in proportion 

 to the* number of plants you have to winter, but at every nine or 

 ten feet, there should be partitions or stays in the inside for the 

 support of the back. 



Round this frame you are to form another, at the distance of two 

 feet therefrom* made of any kind of rough boards, supported by 

 posts, and of the same height. The vacancy between both frames 

 is to be filled up to the top with tanners bark, dry litter, leaves of 

 trees, or any other substance that will keep the frost from pene- 

 trating to the plants. 



Your frame being thus made, plunge the pots containing the 

 plants, to their rims, in the inside, either in tan, or light sandy 

 earth, placing the lowest in front and the tallest behind, and cover 

 the whole with well glazed and well fitted sashes. During the 

 rnost severe winter, the generality of Green-house plants may be 

 effectually preserved in this, or the like frame, by laying on as oc- 

 casion requires, a sufficient quantity cf mats over the glasses, and 

 ever these a covering of boards. 



