150 ON' THE FOBCINO.HOUSB8 or THE ROMANS. 



Their proper them to their proper u^e, we have ppach-house!» built for the 

 use*. purpose of presenting thut excellent fruii to ihe sun, when 



his genial influence is the naost active. We have others for 

 the purpose T ripening grape?, in which they are secured 

 from the chilling effects of our uncertain iutumns, and we 

 have brought them to as high a degree of perfection 

 here, as, ei .h'?r Spain, Frajice, or Italy can boast of. We 

 have pine-' iouses also, in -whica that delicate fruit is raised 

 in a better style tha.j is gentsally practised in its native in* 

 tertropical countries ; except, peihaps, in the well managed 

 gardens of rich individuals, who may, if due care and atten- 

 tion io used by their gardeners, hiive pines as good, but can* 

 not have them better, than those we know how to grow in 

 : England. 

 They will b« The next generation will no doubt erect hot-houses of 

 ro^ed. ' much larger dimensions than those, to which we have hi* 

 therto confined ourselves, such as are capable of raising 

 trees of considerable «ize ; they will also, instead of heat-* 

 ing them with flues, such as we use, and which waste in the 

 wails that conceal them more than half of the warmth they 

 receive fi^dto the fires that heat them, use naked tubes of 

 meta^ filled with steam ♦ instead of smoke. Gardeners 

 will then b5 enabled toadmit a proper proportion of air 

 to the trees in the season of flowerings and as we already 

 are aware ©F the use of bees in our cherry-houses to distri- 

 bute the pollen, where wind cannot be admitted to disperse 

 it, and of shaking the treei wbeu in full bloom, to put the 

 poHenip motion, they will find no difficulty in setting tha 

 shyest kindfe of fruita.i ■).,;■ i (. • ; ,-^V:V, ' 



Fruits that , It does not require the gift of prophecy ft<>'fpret«IW M'^t 

 cuUivare'd ia ^'"^ '^"S ^^^ '^^^ ^"^ ^^^ avocado pear of the, West Indies, 

 them. the -flat peach, the mandarine orange, and >the litchi of 



China, the mangofj the mangostan, and the durion of the. 

 East Indies, and possibly other valuable fruits, will be fre- 



V '*! A' oe?it and ingenious fancy for, hjeating melon fram.e5;l>y^ steam ap-, 

 peared in the Gentleiiaan's Magasiine for January, 1736. . 



t The mango was ripened by Mr. Aiton, his Majesty's gardener, in 

 the Royal Gardens at Kevf, in the autumn of 180^, who has frequently 

 ripened fruits of the mespilus japonica, which is a good but not a su- 

 perior fruit. 



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