HOT-BEDS CHAP. 



CHAPTER in. 



On the making, and managing of Hot-beds and Green-houses. 



48. I OBSERVED before, that it did not accord with my 

 plan to treat of Hot-houses, which, as I then observed, 

 was a branch wholly distinct from gardening in general, 

 and applicable to the circumstances of comparatively very 

 few persons j and that, therefore, to enter on such a 

 treatise, would be of little use to the public in general, 

 while it would injuriously augment the bulk of my work. 

 Hot-beds are, however, of a different character : they 

 may be jnade an amusement, and are even things of real 

 utility, to a very considerable number of persons : to all, 

 in short, who have gardens, and who have the stable- 

 dung of two or three horses, or even of one horse, at 

 their command, or who can procure such materials (as is 

 the case in the neighbourhood of great towns), at a 

 reasonable rate. A green-house, upon a small scale, or 

 adapted to the particular circumstances of the proprietor, 

 is within the reach of a very considerable part of the 

 community 5 and, therefore, without, however, consider- 

 ing it as an essential object, or one worthy of very great 

 attention, I shall give my opinions upon that species of 

 gardening also. 



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49. Hot-beds are used either for raising such things as 



are not to be raised during the winter or the spring with- 



