826 APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES. 



" A Verdelho "Vine, growing in a pot, was placed 

 in the stove early in the spring of 1823, where its 

 wood became perfectly mature in August. It was 

 then taken from the stove and placed under a north 

 wall, where it remained till the end of November s 

 when it was replaced in the stove ; and it ripened its 

 fruit early in the following spring. In May it was 

 again transferred to a north wall, where it remained 

 in a quiescent state till the end of August. It then 

 vegetated strongly, and showed abundant blossom, 

 which, upon being transferred to the stove, set very 

 freely ; and the fruit, having been subjected to the 

 influence of very high temperature, ripened early in 

 the month of February." 



The strawberries of February and March are in like 

 manner procured by exposing the plants to such an 

 amount of dryness and heat as can be obtained by 

 presenting them unwatered, in pots, to the sun, at an 

 early period of summer ; so as to cause a sufficient 

 accumulation of excitability by the end of autumn, 

 instead of the month of May. 



It must be manifest that the operations of the flower- 

 gardener should be regulated by the same principles, 

 although it must be confessed that they are often 

 little considered ; a circumstance the more strange, 

 from the indispensable necessity of resting fruit 

 trees being universally known. It is to the giving 

 their plants the proper kind of rest that some gar- 

 deners owe the magnificent blossoming of their 

 Chinese Azaleas, Cacti, Camellias, and other forced 

 flowers, much more than to any peculiarity in the com» 



