170 PRESERVING GREEN HOUSE PLANTS. [OCT. 



If the cuttings of the green-house plants 

 have failed in striking, you ought now to take up 

 the old plants, pot them, and place them in a 

 green-house, or cold frame. By cold frame, I 

 always mean one placed on the ground, without 

 warm dung or tan ; some ashes should be laid 

 at the bottom and beaten down hard, which, in 

 some measure, will prevent worms from getting 

 into the pots. This I think the best manner of 

 preserving all sorts of Alpine and hardy green- 

 house plants through the winter, such as scarlet 

 geraniums, chrysanthemums, aletriss, stocks, lo- 

 belias, &c. The latter sometimes survive the 

 winter in the open ground ; but, as a very hard 

 or wet season might destroy them, a few roots 

 ought always to be potted. 



If the green-house or frame is too full to 

 admit of your putting the old plants in either, 

 you may adopt, for the geraniums, a plan I have 



