566 HOT-HOUSE DISPLAYED. 



During the Winter, a little frefh air fhould 

 fometimes be admitted ; but always fparingly, 

 only in fine calm mild fun-fhining days, when 

 if a good heat in the houfe, may Aide open 

 ibme of the front or top glafTes one, two, or 

 three inches, about ten or eleven o'clock, till 

 one or two, or fhut clofe fooner if the wea- 

 ther changes cloudy, or the air fharply cold. 



But as the Spring and warm weather, in 

 March, April.- <Scc. advances, give air more 

 freely in fine warm funny days, admitting it 

 an hour or two fooner in th^ forenoon, 

 by nine or ten in a morning, and con- 

 tinued till two, three, or four in the after- 

 noon, if the weather continues mild and 

 funny ; but if the weather changes unfavour- 

 able, be careful to iliut clofe accordingly in 

 due time, fo as to keep up always a regular 

 degree of heat in the houfe. 



Water, during the Winter, will be requi- 

 iite to the Hot-houfe plants almoft in general, 

 but in a moderate degree, generally perform- 

 ing this in funny days in the forenoon, about 

 eleven or twelve o'clock, the woody and her- 

 baceous plants will require a moderate fupply 

 of moifture about once a week, or ten or 

 twelve days, or a fortnight, &c. or accord- 

 ing as the earth in the pots befomes dry, 

 the pines in particular, as being plunged 

 in the moill heat of the bark-bed, will re- 

 quire but very ge^itle waterings at this feafon; 

 but as the warm Spring feafon comes on, and 

 a flrong fun, the plants, in general, will 



require 



