^8 The Hot-House. [Jan. 



they are up, water them frequently. The early white 

 dwarf, fpeckled dwarf, and the livered-colourcd kidney- 

 bean, are the beft for this purpofe. 



Let the plants be fupplied with proper waterings two or 

 three times a week, and they will grow freely, and producer 

 plentiful crops of beans in March and April. 



Plant a fucceffional crop in a fortnight or three week? 

 after, in fmall pots, ready for turning out with balls of 

 earth into the larger pots, &c. 



Of Cucumbers in the Hot-houfe, 



Cucumbers may alfo be raifed and brought to early per- 

 feftion in the hot houfe. 



Prepare for that purpofe fome boxes, the fame length and 

 depth as for kidney-beans ; but they lliould be a foot or 

 fifteen inches broad: fill thefe with rich earth, and place 

 them up near the top glafles, or upon the top of the back 

 or end flues, obferving to place the bottcm of the boxes a 

 a foot or more above the top of the flue. 



But the beft tituation for boxes, or troughs, -for cucum- 

 ber plants, is to place them, by means of lupports, with- 

 in about fifteen or eighteen inches of the top glafles, ered- 

 ing them nearly under, or rather behind the place where 

 the upper ends of the lights and the back roof joins. 



The feed may either be fowcd in fmall pots, and placed 

 in a dung hot-bdd, or the bark-bed in th.e hot-houfe to 

 r.afe the plants, or may be fown at once in the hoves, fix 

 or ei-bt feeds in a fmall patch ; and in a box cf three feet 

 lonu there may be two other patches; and when the plants 

 a!e\)p,' they fnould be thinned our, leaving three or four 

 of the firongeft plants in each place. 



Or, if you raife the plants firfi in fmall pots, plunged 

 in the bark-bed, or in a dung hot-bed, let them be after- 

 wards tranfplanted, with the ball of earth about their roots, 

 into the boxes, or larger pots. 



When the runners of the plants have advanced to the out- 

 fide of the boxes, you may fix up fome laths to fupport the 

 vines, which fhould be failened to them. Let them have 

 water frequently, for they will require it every other day 

 at lead. 



Early Straivherrlcs in the Hcyt-houfe. 



Strawberries may be brought to perfedion in the hot- 

 houfe; and if a few early ones are dcfired, this is the time 

 10 begin. 



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