PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



Part III. 



6714. Watering and cleaning. They will require from this time until about the beginning of March, 

 nothing more than the usual careof watering when necessary, and cleaning them from all dirt or insects 

 as soon as they appear ; also to keep the temperature of the enclosed air as near to its regular pitch as 

 possible : to assist in compassing this object, when the weather sets in severe, it will be proper to use either 

 shutters of canvass or bass mats to cover all the lowest parts of the house ; and in particular those at the 

 greatest distance from the entrance of the fires every night; othei wise the frost will easily enter these 

 remote parts, and chill the air through the whole house ; the consequence of which may be very inju- 

 rious : on the other hand, if these precautions are not attended to, there will be a necessity of keeping up 

 a very strong fire-heat, which will likewise be attended with pernicious effects. 



6715. Insects. It is in these intervals that that destructive insect the red spider makes the most rapid 

 progress, on account of the necessity there exists of keeping the houses close, and supporting a dry warm 

 air, both of which circumstances are particularly congenial to its nature; therefore on all fine mild morn- 

 ings, observe to raise a powerful steam in the house as already directed ; by the frequent repetition of 

 which there will be a possibility of keeping them under control. 



6716. Refreshing the bark-bed. As the internal strength and heat of the tan will now be much on the 

 decline, in consequence of the length of time it has been in use, it will be requisite to turn it more fre- 

 quently, so that about the beginning of March, it should be again stirred to at least half its depth ; which 

 will afford a temperate heat, until the time in which the plants are usually shifted, when it is generally re- 

 newed. Some gardeners make it a practice to have merely the upper half of their tan-pits stirred at any 

 time throughout the year, when the heat happens to be on the decline ; this is certainly a very proper 

 method where there is plenty of time and hands to perform it ; as there is no danger of a burning heat 

 arising ; but it requires to be done so much the oftener, such heat seldom lasting above a month or six 

 weeks ; it consequently will not answer where these conveniences are not to be had. The plants being 

 regulated in proper order as before, let them have the usual treatment until the time of shifting. {Exotic 

 Gard. p. 70.) 



6717. 



Sect. II. Climbing Bark-stove Plants. 

 CLIMBING BARK-STOVE PLANTS. 



6718. The propagation and culture adopted for green-house climbers, is equally so for those of the bar 

 6tove, the difference of temperature being taken into consideration. (See 6204. and 6253.) 



Sect. III. Bulbous-rooted Bark-stove Plants. 



6719. All bulbous-rooted stove ])lants may, no doubt, be kept in the dry-stove ; but if it 

 is wished that they should flower in any degree of perfection, they must be plunged in 

 the bark-bed, when newly planted. The same remark will apply indeed to most of the 

 dry-stove bulbs. 



6720. 



BULBOUS-ROOTED BARK-STOVE PLANTS. 



