9^ T H E N u R s F R y-. [Feb*. 



All edgings fhould be kept ve'7 neat and regular, by 

 trimming them at fides and top every ipring and iummer. 

 See the fucceeding months. 



Forcing early Fh-ivers, i^c. 



Where early fiowers are required^ may, the beginning 

 of this month, place varioas Ibris in pots, in hot-houfes, 

 forcing-houfes, &c. now at work : and in hot-beds ; fuch 

 as pots of pinks, carnations, r^veet-williams, anemones, 

 ranuncuiufes, narcilTus, early tulips, hyacinth"^, jonquils^ 

 and any otherornamental and \\ytcx. imelling fpring flowers, 

 both of the fib ous, bulbous, and tuberous rooted kinds, and- 

 they will blow early, and in good perfeiTtion. 



Likewife may have pots of rofes, and other defirablc 

 flowering plants placed now in the hot-houfe, or any 

 forcing cepaitment. 



About London the garden'?rs ofren force various i^ower 

 plants for market, in boarded fjroing frame;, with the 

 affiftance of hot dung applied to the back part thereof; 

 thefe frames being conllrufled of ftrong inch and half 

 boards, made five or fix feet high behind, the' ends in pro- 

 portion, and fronted with glafs laihes Hoping to the top of the 

 back; maybe four, five, or fix feet wide, thclength at pieafure; 

 and in which placing pots of plants and fhrubs, hot dung 

 is piled againft the back and ends half a yard wide at bot- 

 tom, and gradually narrowed to a foot width at top. 



The dung will throw in a fine heat, and the plants v/ill 

 flower agreeably at an early time ; keeping up the heat, 

 when decreafed by the application of freih hot dung. 



The Nursery. 



FINISH digging the ground betv/een the rows of all 

 kinds of young trees and ihrubs. 

 This work fliould now be completed as foon as poflible, 

 for it will not only render the ground neat and agreeable 

 to be feen, but will be alfo of very great advantage to the 

 growth of the young trees and flirubs of every kind. 



