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The Hot -Ho use. §4^ 



length of the hot-houfe, and about three inches 

 thick, and by the means of pullies and a rope, are con- 

 trived to draw or roll up, and let down, at pleafure ; 

 which is much more convenient than large unweildjr 

 ihutters, which are fometimesufed, and which require al-t 

 moft an hour's work every day to take down and put up,'. 

 The fucceffion pine plants in the pit or ftrcceffion 

 houfe fhould have the fame care, taken of them as di- 

 redled above ; the management for thefe and the fruit- 

 ing plants is the fame, only obferving to make the iires, 

 in general rather more moderate, or as regular as poifi-, 

 ble, which, if n.ot obferved, may force them into„a fruit-'> 

 ing flate at an improper time; to prevent which, thft. 

 greateft care (hould be taken,, until they have acquired 

 fuch a proper degree of growth as to be able to produce- 

 handfome fized fruit, which they are not capable of un- 

 til they are two years old ; at which age they (hould; 

 be placed in the fruitlng-houfe, or where, it is intended: 

 they ihall produce their fruit-. 



The pines and other plants in the hot-houfe will flill* 

 require to be now and then watered i '.' ■ ' 



But in watering them, efpecially the pines, take care 

 to do it moderately, and not oftener at this feafon than* 

 about once a week. 



When there happens to come a fine funny calm day,, 

 it will be proper to admit fome frefh air into the hot-- 

 houfe, by Hiding fome of the glaffes' a little way open ; 

 but be fure to Ihut them again ixi due. time, and efpe- 

 cially if the weather alters. 



Xoiing Pine Plants, 



Thofe young pine plants which are plunged in dung- 

 or bark-beds made in the open air, muft have a very 

 careful attendance at this feafon ; the heat of, the bed 

 mull be duly kept, up by applying a lining of new^ 

 horfe-dung to the fid6s, as often as the bed deereafes- 

 much in its heat. 



The glafles alfo muft be covered every night, in bad. 

 weather, with mats or ftraw ; and fome flraw or other 

 dry litter fhould likewife be laid clofe round about the. 

 outfides of the fram?.. 



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