AND CONSERVATORY. 551 



THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



Of the Temperature of the Green-House. 



THIS compartment requires particular attention 

 at this season of the year, in order to preserve the 

 health of the plants in general, and carry the more 

 tender kinds through winter. In the first place, 

 then, 



The temperature must be so regulated as to suit 

 the nature of the plants in a general sense ; the more 

 delicate kinds should be placed nearest to the fur- 

 nace or furnaces, on the crib-trellis above the flues, 

 &c. ; keeping the more hardy plants in the interior, 

 or colder parts. A high temperature is not neces- 

 sary for the generality of green-houSe plants ; on the 

 contrary, it might very much injure them, by 

 causing them to push feeble shoots at an improper 

 season, a season in which they would neither ac- 

 quire colour nor strength, for want of light and 

 sunshine. Let the temperature, therefore, be so re- 

 gulated by fire-heat, as that the mercury may stand 

 about 45, (the thermometer, being placed in the 



