4^ The Hot-House; [Jan. 



fufficlent to warm the inclofed air enough to relift the froil : 

 alfo in very foggy or moift weather may make a very mo- 

 derate fire to expel the damp, which often proves pernicious 

 to fome of the more delicate plants. 



But by no means keep a fire in this department but only 

 occafionally as above, and let it always be very moderate, 

 not to force' the plants into growth at this feafon. 



The Hot- House. 



Piues, 



AT this feafon the hot-houfe requires good attendance, 

 for fome of the pines will now, towards the end of 

 the month, begin to fliew fruit, and your affiftance is at no 

 time more neceffary than when the fruit firft appears j for 

 if the heat of the bark-bed is not kept up at that time, the 

 young fruit will receive a check m.ore than may be imagined. 

 As notwithftanding the air of the houfe can be fufficiently 

 warmed by the flues, yet thefe plants alfo require always a 

 moderately brlfk growing heat to their roots, but efpecially 

 when the fruit is young ; and without that they will be 

 inuch inferior in fize to what they otherwife would have 

 been. 



Examine therefore carefully at this time the heat of th« 

 bark-bed in which the pots of pines are plunged ; and if 

 you find it very faint, take up all the pots, and let the bark 

 be forked up to the bottom. But bfefore you proceed to 

 this, let the bark be firft well examined ; and if found to 

 be much wafted, that is, if much of it is become very fmall, 

 or earthy, it will be advifeable to add at the fame time a 

 little new tan, firft removing away fome of the wafted ftuff 

 at top and fides, and then working the old and new well to- 

 gether. When that is done, let the pots be replunged again 

 to their rims, in a regular manner, as before. This will 

 enliven the heat greatly, and, if done in proper time, the 

 young fruit will grow freely. 



Let the fires be made very regularly every evening and 

 morning, and take care that they are not made too ftrontr, 

 for that would be of very bad confequence, and to a\*oid 

 this, have a thermometer in t^e houfc, as a dire^ftion to 

 regulate the degree of heat. 



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