THE FORCING GARDENER. [B. I* 



very prejudicial to the health of the plants. 

 Water fo fpilt {hould be inftantly wiped 

 up 3 and this cannot be done where the 

 floor is of earth or fand. The floor fhould 

 therefore be bedded on brick-bats, flone- 

 chips, furnace afhes, &c. 



Air and light, in Winter, being of the 

 utmoft confequence to the health of the 

 plants, the free admiflion of them {hould 

 \be ftudied in the conilruction 3 and, at the 

 fame time, that wherein a great deal of fire 

 heat may not be required, which tends to 

 draw the plants up weak in Winter and 

 Spring. 



Plate VI. reprefents the plan of ail ap- 

 proved Green-houfe, for breeding and bring- 

 ing young plants to an early flowering 

 ftate. But where elegance in the build- 

 ing is fludied, and the front is to be of free 

 ft one ; architecture and mafonry may have 

 their full fw ay *, in any of the orders but 



that 



* The Greerj-houfe at Wemyfs Caftle is fuppofed to 

 be the moil elegant of any in this country. The front 

 is of freeflone : and done to -the Corinthian order, in the 

 lighted manner. The windows are circular ; whofe 

 width is fix feet and an half each, and the pilafters on- 

 ly eighteen inches. It is placed in the centre of the 



principal range of hot houfes, and has a very fine effect. 



