- -.) THE HOT-HOUSE. [Oct. 



"•ocs through the screen, may be used for covering beds wherein 

 are planted bulbous roots, &c. to protect them from frost: as much 

 new tan, previously made sufficiently dry, must be added to the 

 coarse part as will fill up the pits again a little above the top, 

 mixing both well together as you proceed in the filling. This done 

 plunge the pots as directed on other occasions. 



General Care. 



The pines and all the other exotics must have regular care and 

 attendance; let water be given once or twice a week to some, oftener 

 to others, as you see necessary, being careful not to give too much 

 at a time, for that would not only injure many plants, but destroy 

 the heat of the bark-bed. 



Admit fresh air into the house every calm or warm day, espe- 

 cially when the sun shines, by sliding open some of the glasses from 

 nine or ten o'clock till two, three or four, always observing to close 

 the house in the afternoon while the air is warm, to supersede the 

 necessity of fire as long as possible; and if you must have recourse 

 to it towards the latter end of the month, use it but moderately at 

 this season. 



The advantages of keeping the house as cool as may be consistent 

 with the safety of the plants, during this and the next month, are 

 very obvious; all the plants are gradually hardened and rendered 

 thereby capable of bearing the vicissitudes of the winter season 

 better than if they were drawn up tender and weakly by too much 

 heat; but the pines in particular, if forced at this season, would, 

 many of them, start to fruit at an untimely period, which would 

 get stunted and misshapen before the commencement of the free 

 spring vegetation, and would consequently be totally lost, or not 

 worth their room in the house. 



"When the leaves of any plants decay, they should be picked oft', 

 and the house kept constantly clear from fallen leaves, cobwebs, or 

 any other tilth, which not only renders the house neat, but is very 

 necessary to preserve the plants in health. 



Wintering Hot-House plants in Garden- Frames. 



There are few tropical plants but may be preserved during win- 

 ter, while in a small state, in garden-frames well constructed and 

 attended, so that an ingenious and careful gardener may not despair 

 of preserving the most rare plants in winter, without the aid of a 

 hot-house; and even where there is one, and the stock of plants too 

 numerous, such auxiliary convenience will be found of considerable 

 utility. 



A frame for this purpose should be made about nine or ten feet 

 long, four to five wide, three and a half high in front, and five in 

 the back part, with sashes well glazed and fitted as close, and neat 

 as possible, so as to slide up and down freely. This frame should 

 be placed in a dry well sheltered situation, exposed fully to the 

 south, and where it can have the benefit of the sun during the whole 



