FRA 



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FiU 



F. ela'tior (taller. Hautboi&}. 1|. White. 

 May. Britain. 



grandiflo'ra (Pine. Great-flowered). 1. 



White. May. Surinam. 175Q. 



1'ndica (yellow Indian). 1. Yellow. July. 



India. 1805. 



majau'fea (Majaufe de Champ). 1. White. 



May. France. 



monophy'lla (one-leaved). 1. White. May, 



1773. 



2>latanoi'dcs (Plane-like). 1. Ked. May. 



North America. 



ve'sca (edible. Common wild). 1. White. 



May. Britain. 



Virginia'na (Scarlet. Virginia). 1. White. 



April. North America. 1629. 



FRAMES are structures employed 

 either in forcing, or in protecting 

 plants, and are of various sizes. 



According to the good practical rules 

 of Abercromhie : The onc-Uykt frame 

 may be about four feet and a half in 

 width from back to front, and three feet 

 six inches the other way ; iifteen or 

 eighteen inches high in the back, and 

 nine in front, with a glass sash or light, 

 made to fit the top completely, to slide 

 up and down, and move away occa- 

 sionally. 



The two-light frame may be seven 

 feet long, four and a half wide, and 

 iifteen or eighteen inches high in the 

 back, with bars reaching from it at top 

 to the front, serving both to strengthen 

 the frame and help to support the 

 .lights; the two lights to be each three 

 feet six inches Avide, made to lit the 

 top of the frame exactly. 



The three-light frame should be ten 

 feet six inches long, four and a half 

 wide, and from eighteen inches to two 

 feet high in the back, and from nine to 

 twelve or fifteen inches in front ob- 

 serving that those designed principally 

 for the culture of melons, may be rather 

 deeper than for cucumbers, because 

 they generally require a greater depth 

 of mould or earth on the beds ; though 

 frames, eighteen, or twenty inches in 

 the back, and from nine to twelve in 

 front, are often made to serve occa- 

 sionally, both for cucumbers and me- 

 lons. Each frame should have two cross 

 bars, ranging from the top of the back 

 to tli at of the front, at three feet six 

 inches distance, to strengthen the 

 frame, and support the lights ; and the 

 three lights should be each three feet six 

 inches wide ; the whole together being 



nade to fit the top of the frame 

 exactly, every way in length and Avidth. 

 Sometimes the above sort of frames 

 are made of larger dimensions than be- 

 ;ore specified ; but in respect to this it 

 should be observed, that if larger they 

 are very inconvenient to move to dif- 

 ferent parts Avhere they may be occa-- 

 ionally Avanted, and require more heat 

 to Avarm the internal air : and in re- 

 spect to depth particularly, if they are 

 but just deep enough to contain a due 

 depth of mould, and for the plants to 

 have moderate room to groAv, they will 

 be better than if deeper, as the plants 

 Avill be then always near the glasses, 

 Avhich is an essential consideration in 

 early Avork and the internal air will be 

 more effectually supported in a due 

 temperature of warmth. For the deeper 

 the frame, the less in proportion Avill 

 be the heat of the internal air, and the 

 plants being far from the glasses Avill 

 be some disadvantage in their early 

 growth. Besides, a too deep frame, 

 both in early and late Avork, is apt to 

 draw the plants up Aveakly; for they al- 

 Avays naturally aspire towards the 

 glasses, and the more space there is, 

 the more they will run up ; for which 

 reason the London kitchen-gardeners 

 haA*e many of their frames not more 

 than fouiteen or fifteen inches high 

 behind, and seven in front, especially 

 those which are intended to winter the 

 more tender young plants, such as 

 cauliflower and lettuce, and for raising 

 early small salad, herbs, radishes, &c. 

 The woodwork of the back, ends, 

 and front should be of inch or inch 

 and a quarter deal, as before observed, 

 which should be all neatly planed even 

 and smooth on both sides ; and the 

 joints, in framing them together, should 

 be so close that no Avet nor air can 

 enter. The cross-bars or bearers at 

 top, for the support of the glasses, 

 should be about three inches broad 

 and one thick, and neatly dovetailed 

 in at back and front even with both 

 edges, that the lights may shut doAvn 

 close, each having a groove or channel 

 I along the middle to conduct off all wet 

 falling betAveen the lights. At the end 

 of each frame, at top, should be a thin 

 slip of board, four inches broad, up to 



