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the most severe that can be pronounced upon 

 man. 



102. As to the erection of a green-house, car- 



E enters and glaziers are never wanted, and, where 

 ocust wood, for the sills, is every where to be 

 liad, and glass with scarcely any tax, how ele- 

 gant, how cheap, and how durable, may such a 

 thing as a green-house be ! 



103. In America there must be heat ; but, how 

 easily will any of the ingenious men in this coun- 

 try find the means of furnishing the necessary 

 heat with hardly any expense or trouble ' In most 

 cases the warmth might go from the parlour fire 

 place : for, all that is wanted is comfiletety to keep, 

 out frost. There is, here, no want of Sun even 

 in the coldest weather ; and, if the green-house 

 were on the Eastern side of the dwelling-house, 

 the cold would not be any great annoyance, 

 But, at any rate, the heat necessary to keep out 

 frost might easily be obtained. A Thermometer 

 should be kept in the green-house. The heat 

 should be about sixty degrees in the day time, 

 and forty-Jive in the night. 



104. In England they need very little fire in 

 their green-houses, except in very cold weather, 

 which, indeed, they seldom have. Their great 

 want is that of sun ; for, nothing will do well 

 without sun ; and America has plenty of this 

 even in the coldest weather. So that, if the frost 

 were effectually kept out, that alone would give 

 beautiful plants in winter. By an additional 

 heat, a growth and a bloom would be constantly 

 kept up ; and a green-house might be made one 

 of the most beautiful and most pleasant things in 

 f he world. 



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