Warming Apparatus. 8 5 



Breton, in his Fantasticks (1626), tells his / 

 reader to beware of hot-houses in November, 

 lest he should catch cold. But whether 

 he intends the word in a horticultural 

 sense, or in what was in his time the 

 more common one of a bagnio, is not 

 altogether clear. 



But there is little doubt that it was 

 always the case in our country, as Breton 

 states under March, that the cultivation 

 of such delicate fruit as lemons, oranges, 

 and pomegranates cost a good deal more 

 than the result commercially justified. 



The occupations connected with horticul- 

 ture multiplied as time progressed, and the 

 necessities or experience of consumers deve- 

 loped themselves more and more. To the 

 simple gardener were gradually added the 

 hoer, the engrafter or pruner, the fieldman, 

 the mower, although these latter two apper- 

 tain more properly to the agricultural depart- 

 ment ; and where, as at present, pigs, cows, 

 and poultry were kept as part of the demesne, 

 they had their cowherds, swineherds, and the 

 like ; and, on the whole, in looking over the 



