FORCING. 
a:floping .mraimer ‘from the back.to front, for the fupport 
: of ‘the lights, as in common hot-bed frames; the top o 
all being boarded and made wind and water tight. The 
metimes within-fide them two or three ranges 
back and ends, for 
‘frames have fo 
plants in front and the 
wifing — to the tallett i in the hake rows of the 
‘fram. 
oe 
lupply 
é 
In cafes where bark is made ufe of in producing the heat, 
the frame may be conftruéted either of weod-or brick-work, 
and fronted, &c. with fathes of glafs,.as in the shee foes 
length being ten, twenty, or thirty feet, or more; eight or ten 
‘in width, and fix or cig t in eight 3 and, like the ding-heat 
the frame 
ikewife 
> ne top of the back wall, which is the moft eligible form, 
a) and benefit-of the plants; either of 
which confruGions ee be erefted detached, or againt 
a fouth wall already built, which will ferve for the back, 
and fave fome expence ; the en s may either be of wood 
or brick, and feed he aang oa ers pied — 
and perfor a dea nece’ - wor ne a, near the 
back-wall, a door fhould be made to cee occafionally at, 
and within-fide a pit one for the bark-bed, three feet 
deep, partly funk, but the greater part raifed, being con- 
tinued the whole length and bab de 3 about a foot and 
_ahalf of alley to pafs in, to perform the neceflary culture, 
as vag as view and gather the Grane: of the different 
lant 
. The a within is to be filled with new bark or tan, in 
order to’ afford a proper heat for the growth and fupport of 
the plants that are to be cultivated in the frame. See Hor- 
Jhe frame where fire-heat is to be employed mutt a 
formed of brick-work ; at leaft the back or main wall, fo 
the convenience of having pene and the whole front, be 
like the other forts; the length may be from 
twenty ta forty or fifty feet, or more, though one fire will 
warm more than that length; the width from five or fix 
to twelve or fifteen. feet, and: reight or ten in height. In 
this cafe the fire is burned in a furnace fet up behind, at 
one end, or in the middle, thence communicating the heat 
by internal flues or funnels running the whole length-of the 
back wall ir three or four returns one above another, and 
continued in one or two flues in the front. And frames, thus 
may capacious enough to 
wall-tr ees ees and fome fmall half, or + fall ftandards, ran ae 
ing alfo from the back to the front ; or be entirely for ‘ftand- 
ards, efpecially thofe of cherry kin 
Where it is intended to have a narrow frame, for only a 
row of trained trees behind, the width of from ous ta five 
other, ue the whole length of the wall; in the front 
w wall a foot in height, on which to lay a plate 
and from which are range s frames, or 
er rte a 
being 
hind them, upon which ties the bran ches, 
= or Ser oF 
E's 
OF 
aT different forts . ee of this nature may be 
feen | in the appropriate pla 
With the firft fort of ‘forcin -frame, various kinds of 
fruits may be produced, both of the dwarf-fruit-tree and 
other kinds, as well as different forts of vegetables and 
plants of the flowery and other kinds. And frames of 
this fort may have fuch dimenfions as to have fubftantial 
hot-beds prepared daar them, for ina purpofe of receive 
ing many different forts of potted 
But in the fecond fort of frame, to the heat being 
more regular and lafting, a ftill greater varity of the finer 
forts of fruits, and the mere.tender flo and other vee 
And the ttt Kind. of ie alae is moftly employed i in 
for 
urnifhing m the finer s of fruits, that require 
higher degrees of heat to procure them in the utmoft per- 
fe&tion, than could otherwife be obtained; fuch as-pine- 
in 
apples, grapes, peaches, nectarines, and various others, as. 
well as many tender forts of vegetables,.and numerous plants 
of the curious-flawer and other kinds, See Hor-Hou/e. 
will. ddmit,: in: order that. aaig may Pe conve yed to them, 
with 
