HOT-HOUSE DISPLAYED. $31 



yiethcds of forcing variout forts of Plants y 

 Flo^-wersy Fruits, 'dc, in the Hut-Houfe, ta 

 early perfection. 



IN the Hot-houfe and Stoves, by their pe- 

 culiar internal heat, defigned principally for 

 the culuvation of the tendered exotics, many 

 hardy and curious or defirable plants, flowers, 

 and fruits, may be occafionally raifed to early 

 perfeftion in Winter and Spring, &c. as do not 

 acquire maturity in the open ground before 

 Summer and Autumn ; and the proper feafon 

 to begin to introduce them therein for forcing, 

 is principiilly December, January, February, 

 and i\'Iarch ; and in feveral forts admitted in 

 fuccclfion every three or four weeks til! May or 

 June, and may confift of feveral different forts, 

 both of efculents and flowers, &c. and all in- 

 troduced in pots ; as fometimes pots of fmalU 

 failed feeds, mint roots, early dwarf kidney 

 beans, occafionally pots of early dwarf peas, 

 cucumbers, ftrawberries ; alfo rofes, pinks, 

 carnations, and various other flowering plants, 

 bulbous and tuberous-rooted kinds, and fmall 

 fhrubs : all cf which, in feeds, plants, and 

 roots, fliQuld be fowed and planted in pots 

 or boxes. 



For example. To raife fmall fallading 

 quickly in Winter by aid of a hot-houfe, fow 

 a portion of creflTes, muftard, and other feeds of 

 fmall fallad herbs, thickly in large wide pots, 

 or in boxes of light earth ; place them in the 

 iVi ^ ■ hot* 



