III. AND GREEN-HOUSES. 



and other things necessary for arranging the plants upon, 

 would-be erected according to the taste of the owner, and 

 the purposes in view. Besides the plants usually kept in 

 green-houses, such as geraniums, heaths, and the like, 

 I should choose to have bulbous-rooted plants of various 

 sorts, even the most common, not excluding snow-drops 

 and crocuses. Primroses and violets (the common single 

 sorts, for the others have no smell), cowslips and 

 daisies j some dwarf roses ; and thus a very beautiful 

 flower-garden would be to be seen in the month of 

 February, or still more early. Green-house plants are 

 always set out of doors in the summer, when they are 

 generally very much eclipsed in beauty by plants of a 

 hardy and more vigorous description. If there be no 

 green-house, these plants are taken into the house, shut 

 up in a small space, very frequently in the shade, and 

 always from strong light, especially early in the morn- 

 ing j which greatly injures, and, sometimes, totally de- 

 stroys, them j besides, they really give no pleasure, ex- 

 cept in winter -, for, as was observed before, after the 

 month of May comes, they are far surpassed in beauty 

 by the shrubberies and the parterre. 



57. Nor is such a place without its real use, for, few 

 persons will deny that fruit is of use ; none will deny 

 that fine grapes are amongst the best of fruit j we all 

 know that these are not to be had in England, in the ge- 

 neral run of years, without the assistance of glass ; and 

 the green-house, in which the shade of the grapes would 

 do no injury to the plants, because these would be out 

 in the open air, except at the time when there would be 

 little of leaf upon the vines, is as complete a thing for a 



