Nov.] THE GREEN-HOUSE. 573 



and in wet or frosty weather: even in very severe weather, 

 you may happen to find an hour or two in the middle of the day in 

 which to slide down the upper lights, to admit fresh air, and suffer 

 the foul to pass oat; this may be often done when it would be quite 

 imprudent to raise the lower sashes. But if a very rigorous frost 

 should set in towards the latter end of the month, it may be neces- 

 sary to make a fire in the evening, to prevent its penetrating into 

 the house; however, this should not be resorted to while you can 

 keep out the frost by means of good shutters or by fastening mats in 

 front of the windows at night; for too much heat at any time, but 

 particularly in the early part of the season, is of serious injury to 

 the green-house plants, which require nothing more than merely to 

 be kept from frost. 



Occasional, but gentle waterings, must now be given to all the 

 plants; some will require to be watered three times a week, while 

 others, particularly the succulent kinds, will not need it more than 

 a little once a week; but as the state of the weather sometimes 

 makes a very material difference in this, there is no saying how 

 often, or how much at a time, ought to be administered; however 

 it will be safer to give a little and often, than too much at a time, 

 which should now be administered in the forenoon of fine days, that 

 the damp may pass off before the windows are shut, lest the steam 

 occasioned thereby might create a mouldiness, and injure the plants. 



Pick off all decayed leaves from the plants, and throw them out 

 of the house; for if they are suffered to remain in it, they will rot 

 and infect the air, which foul effluvia being imbibed by the plants, 

 will infect them also, and bring on disease and vermin. 



Examine the tubs and pots occasionally, and if the earth cakes or 

 binds at top, loosen it to a moderate depth; and where decayed 

 branches or shoots occur, prune them off as soon as observed, and 

 cast them out of the house. 



The myrtles and other plants which are in frames, or pits, must 

 now be duly attended to, in like manner as those in the green-house. 

 The frames or pits, to the full height of the glasses, must be lined 

 around with horse-dung, leaves, straw, fern or the like, to keep the 

 frost from penetrating in at the sides and ends; the plants must have 

 plenty of fresh air at all favourable opportunities, and be effectually 

 protected at night and in frosty weather, by laving a sufficient 

 covering of mats, straw, boards, &c. over the glasses, observing not 

 to deprive them of the benefit of light but while absolute necessity 

 requires it. 



Preserving tender Bulbs, §-c. 



As some persons who have not the convenience of a hot-house 

 may be desirous of having some tender exotic bulbous and tuberous 

 rooted plants, such as crinums, pancratiums, arums, amo'mum 

 xin'/.iber, or true ginger, &c. These and such like roots may, in the 

 beginninu; of this month, be taken up and carefully dried as you do 

 tuberoses, and then packed up in very dry sand, or in extremely 

 dry moss, observing to keep them during winter completely out of 



