Feb,] 



The Hot-House. rir 



Ofhlonving RcfeSy and other Plants early. 



You may now, in the beginning of this month, (tt 

 pots of rofes, hypericum-frutex, Perfinn lilacs, fyringas,. 

 and honey-fiickles in the hot-houfe, or pots of carnations, 

 pinks, and double fweet-williams, or pots of any other de- 

 fireable flowering plants, either of the flirub or herbaceous 

 kinds which you defire, byway of curiofity, to bring to an 

 early bl,oom, fapplying them with plenty of wate?. 



Likewife about the middle and ^wd. of the month, may 

 introduce more of the fame forts of flcnvering plants to 

 produce flowers in regular fucceffion. 



Making the Fires in this Department. 



The fires muft be flill regularly made in the hot-houfe 

 every evening, and alfo in the moriilngs, when the wea>. 

 ther is any thing cold. 



In hard froil the fire muft be kept up moderately, night 

 and day. 



In veryfevere froxT, it will be of much advantage if the 

 glafi'es of the hot-houfe are covered every night wlfti 

 mats or canvas. 



Of CucumBers in the Hot-houfe^ 

 Where it is defiredto raife early cucumbers in the hot- 

 boufe, fome feed may now be fuwn as directed lafl rnonth, 

 or young plants planted therein, from any common hot- 

 bed. See the Hot-houfe iox January. 



Early Slravjberries. 



Likewife you may now introduce into the hot-houfe mora 

 pots of the fcarlet and Alpine flrawberries to fucceed thofe 

 of laft month ; let them be one or two year's old bearing 

 plants, efpecially the fcarlet kinds ; place tluem near the 

 glafl'es, or plunge them in the bark-bed to forv/ard then* 

 earlier, giving proper fupplies of water. 



If fome frefti plants are taken into the hot-houfe every 

 three weeks, 'yoit may obtain a conilant fupply of early 

 fruit till thofe in the open ground ripen. 



And if feme pots of plants were kept in one or two- 

 moderate dung hot-beds to forward them., fome may be. 

 removed in fucceiTive order into the hot-houfe, and others; 

 remain in the frames, they will continue a fupply of early- 

 fruit in regular fucceffion. 



MARCH. 



