120 ON THE NATURALISATION, ETC. 



Emily. Let me endeavor to recapitulate the several 

 circumstances to be attended to in transplanting from a 

 warm to a cold climate. In the first place you must make 

 the plant pass through the various gradations of the hot- 

 house and green house, previous to exposing it to the 

 open air ; you must then plant it in the spring, deep in a 

 richly-carbonised soil, and cover up the vital point of 

 junction between the stem and the roots. It must be 

 placed in a southern aspect, or against a south wall, wa- 

 tered with great moderation : the fruit must be gathered 

 before the frost sets in ; and the plant may be covered 

 with matting in winter, if situated in an elevated spot in a 

 dry soil. 



Mrs. B. I believe you have enumerated all the direc- 

 tions I have to give you on this point. 



I shall add a few remarks on greenhouses and hot- 

 houses, as necessary to the cultivation of such plants as 

 cannot be familiarised to our climate. They should both 

 be situated, as far as is practicable, in a southern aspect. 



Emily. But when this is not attainable, to which do 

 you give the preference, a south-east or south-west as- 

 pect ? 



Mrs. B. The first has the advantage of affording re- 

 lief earliest to a plant which has suffered from the cold 

 during the night ; the latter that of sheltering it from the . 

 severe east wind : upon the whole I should be inclined 

 to choose the latter. 



Verticle windows have the advantage of not retaining 

 the snow, the disadvantage of admitting less light and 

 heat ; and in England, where we are not much troubled 

 with snow, and require all the heat we can obtain in win- 

 ter, the inclined windows are certainly preferable and are 

 almost universally adopted ; whilst on the Continent, 

 where less heat is required, vertical windows are more 

 common. 



In southern climates, the house must not be built deep, 

 in order to admit the sun's rays to every part ; in northern 

 climes, the sun's rays falling more obliquely, a greater 

 depth of building is admissible : the roof should project 



672. What is the recapitulation of the several circumstances to be at- 

 tended to in transplanting from a warm to a cold climate'? 673. 

 What is the advantage of a southeast and a southwest aspect for plants'? 

 674. What is said of different windows for hot houses'? 675. And of 

 the depth of hot houses! 



