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they expect to have a suitable class of plants so forward, or 

 flower so early, as though they had been kept at 60° of heat ; 

 but I think there are a large class that will be more healthy, 

 and flower more perfectly, although later, for this degree of 

 rest. My roses are now putting out buds, and forming wood 

 freely. The daphnes, rhododendrons, and that class of plants, 

 flower well. It is not supposed that this is the best place for 

 growing and flowering plants that money and skill could 

 produce ; but the best, perhaps, that could be, with the same 

 amount of expenditure. 



I will mention a convenient mode of watering my plants, 

 both the pots and the foliage. I have taken a lead pipe from 

 the bottom of the sink in the kitchen, and, covering it in the 

 bottom of the cellar, bring the end of it up beneath the front 

 shelf of my greenhouse. When I wish to water, I cover 

 the outlet of tlie sink, and pump it full of water ; then, with 

 a piece of rubber hose and a fine sprinkler, I can wash both 

 the upper and under side of the leaves. The plants show 

 their gratification by the bright green of their foliage. 



Should I ever warm my greenhouse, it would be by placing 

 any small boiler by my furnace, and then carry the steam 

 from it, in a lead pipe, into trenches covered some six inches 

 deep with earth, and ranging under the shelves, where the 

 steam would be allowed to condense. This would warm the 

 ground of the greenhouse, giving it a very equal temperature. 

 This arrangement of a greenhouse would afford a good and 

 convenient locale for plants, and rid ladies of the trials they 

 have with them in their rooms. It likewise offers a source 

 of extreme pleasure, without the trouble and perplexities they 

 at present forego, for the gratification of the taste so worthy 

 of being cultivated. 



Millhiiry, Worcester Co., Mass., Feb. \st, 1853. 



Mr. Davis has exercised much ingenuity in the construction 

 of a cheap plant house, which he has so explicitly detailed m 

 the above communication. 



We think the plan an admirable one, — not that we would 

 like to see such take the place of other and more appropriate 

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