A 





TREATISE 



UPON 



AND THE 



MANAGEMENT OF THE HOT-HOUSE. 



C O N T A 



I. The Method of planting Foreft-Trees 

 In gravelly, poor, mountainous, and 

 heath Lands ;- aiid for railing the 

 Plants in the Seed-Bed, previous to 

 their being planted. 



II. The Method of Pruning Forcft-Trees, 

 and how to improve Plantations that 

 have been neglected. 



HI. On tlie Soils mod proper for the 

 different Kinds of Foreft-trees. 



IV. The Management of Vines ; their 

 Cultivation upon Fire-Walls and in the 

 Hot-Houfe ; with a new Method of 

 drefling, planting, and preparing the 

 Ground. 



V. A new ani eafy Method to prc p:\gate 

 Pine Plants, lb as to gain Half a Year 



I N I N O 



in their Growth ; with a fure Methoj 

 of destroying die Inledl to dcflructive 

 to Pines. 



VI. The beft Metliod to raife Muftiroomj 

 without Spawn, by which die Table 

 may be plentifully fupplied every Day 

 in the Year. 



VII. An improved MedioJ of cultivating- 

 Afparagus. 



VIII. The beft Method to cultivate Field 

 C i.bbages, Carrots, and Turnips fof 

 feeding of Cattle. 



IX. A new Method of managing all 

 Kinds of Fruit-Trees,vii. of proper Soils 

 for plants:, of pruning and drefling 

 t!;em; with a Receipt to prevent 

 Blights, aud cure them when blighted* 



BY JOHN KENNEDY, 



GARDENER TO SIR THOMAS GASCOIGNE, BART. 

 THE SECOND EDITION, 



CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. 



y o L. i, 



LONDON: 



PRINTED FOR S. HOOPER, N* 25, LUDGATB-HII.L, 

 M DCC LXXVII. 



