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will forward tliem considerably, and some into small pots tu be 

 placed therein, three plants in each; others may be planted on a 

 warm border, three inches asunder, and covered with hand-glasses; 

 after they have stood a month all those not potted should be planted 

 where they are to remain. 



Stockgilly-jloioers and fVall-Jlowcrs. 



The choice double and other stockgilly-flowers and wall-flowers 

 which you have in pots, and under the protection of any kind of 

 covering, should never be exposed to a strong sun whilst in a frozen 

 state; they will stand the winter with very little protection from 

 frost, but must be carefully guarded against the sun's influence at 

 such times. 



Forcing early Flowers. 



Where early flowers are required, either for ornament or for 

 sale, you must prepare for this business in October, and then plant 

 in suitable sized pots the various kinds that you intend to force; 

 such as carnations, pinks, sweet-williams, double daisies, and other 

 fibrous rooted plants. The earliest kinds of hyacinths, van-thol, 

 and other early tulips, anemones, ranunculuses, jonquils, narcis- 

 susses of various sorts, dwarf Persian irises, crocuses in different 

 varieties, and many other kinds of early flowering bulbs, having 

 been protected in a suitable manner, as heretofore directed; you 

 may, about the beginning of this month, plant these pots, or such of 

 them as you wish to force for the earliest bloom, in any forcing de- 

 partment now at work, such as hot-houses, forcing-houses of any 

 kind, hot-beds, &c. By plunging the pots into the bark-pits or hot- 

 beds, you will have them to flower the sooner. As the hyacinths, 

 carnations, and pinks advance, tie their flower stems to neat sticks, 

 or to pieces of painted wire stuck into the pots for that purpose. 



You may likewise force pots of roses, honey-suckles, jasmines, 

 double flowering almonds, thorns, cherries, and peaches, and also 

 any other early flowering and desirable plants by the same means. 



Either of the preceding kinds may be forced in board forcing- 

 frames, with the assistance of hot dung applied to the back and 

 ends thereof; these being constructed of strong inch and a half, or 

 two inch plank, made eighteen inches high in front and five or six. 

 feet high in the back, the ends in proportion, and length at pleasure. 

 The width to be Ave or six feet, and the whole covered with sloping 

 glasses. 



Having such a frame in readiness, fill the inside thereof to a level 

 with the front with fresh tanner's bark, into which plunge your pots; 

 or, if you have not the convenience of bark, sink a pit into the 

 earth about eighteen inches deep, which fill to the surface with 

 fresh horse-dung; place the frame thereon, and add more dung till 

 it reaches within six inches of the upper part of the frame in front; 

 then till the remainder to that level with good dry earth. 



In either case plunge the pots to their rims in the bark or earth, 



