FRA 
from nine to twelve inches high in f: saa — a 
or light made to fit the top os ely, to fli 
down and remove ara sae! Ve 
frame ma _be 
aa = 
feven fee 
wide, made to fit the top of the frame exaCl 
three-light forcing frame fhould be ten feet fix inches long, 
four and a half wide, and fr om eighteen inches to two feet 
igh in the back, and fro ne to twelve and fifteen inches 
in front ; thofe de ined aracipally for the culture of melons 
fer cucumbers, as pal Fearn 
aes both a Pines a ata ; each frame 
fhould have two crofs bars ranging from the top of the 
back to that of the front, at three i fix inches ate to 
ftrengthen them and fupport the lights ; the lights fhould be 
each three feet fix inches wide; the who re together being 
made to ft the top of the frame exactly every way. 
They are fometimes made of larger dimeadone than the 
above, but they are very inconvenient to move to di 
may be wanted, hea me ire more heat t 
glaffes, which 1 tia: 
and the oie air ae more offeftnally fupported in a due 
ftate of warmth; as the deeper the frame the lefs the heat 
of the internal air in proportion; and the 
affes will be difadvantag 
ondon kitchen-gardeners have 
their forcing anes not more than fourteen 
or’ fifteen fe high ie and au or nine in front, 
ef-ecially ra which are intended to winter the more tender. 
voung plants, ft 3 as pny Ree eee » &c. and thofe 
for railing early fall fallad herbs, raddifhes, and many 
others. 
ee when for the eaaers aa taller plants, they fhoul d 
n propor ned as a nurfery-frame for 
ee See ale ona, three nes fix by fifteen or eighteen 
aches are the proper depth, os the largeft plants 
y ng ones re orward, and t 
crowns and fuc ar in iy of all; a frame af 
thefe Smeaton nee ferve alfo for any of the hardier kinds 
ef low green-houfe plants, as myrtles, &c. where there is 
not a proper green-houfe, or as an cafement to it, when too 
much crowded. It is ufeful alfo as an occafional winter, 
elter y forts of curious young plants, evergreens, 
and others of the full grown, which, being tend in 
their Phas a! fron a requl eee for two, three, 0 
m 
ene a at mofphere 
Pe ae fo are fo metimes made ufe of i in the 
AW 
n s the w codwvork of the backs, ine 
= ree ihould: be of fuch thick deal as has bee 
tioned, which muft be all ie planed even and ee on 
both fides, and the joints in framing them together be fo 
clofe that no wet or air can enter ; the crofs bars or bearers 
chan nel alon 
But a. 
FRA 
at the fops for the fupport of the glaffes fhould not be 
above three inches broad and. one thick, and neatly dove- 
tailed iti:at the back and front even with both edges, that 
the lights may fhut down clofe, each havin 
the riddle to conduét 
at tha diately ie plants, when the rie s 
are occafionally tilted behind.for the ne ry-admiffion of 
frefh r pu r the lights, the 
wood-work of the frame of each hould he inch and half 
thick, and two and a halt broad ; and the bars for the #v- 
mediate fupport of the g ere vork about an inch eel and 
not more than inch and half thick, as.when too broad and 
thick the eatly intercept the rays of the fun. They 
fhould only be juft fufficient to fupport the glafs-work with- 
out bending, = be ranged from the back part to the front 
with exadcine 
1e plafe-work eile el a ne _ in lead and well trim. 
med with c tight, or in the bars of 
wood in ere ante: - hie aa the latter me sthod is 
y fome preferred, as being more effectual for me ape 
of wet, the lapping of = i ag being left 
ank vapour vatralhy ae in 
e glafles, may 
be difcharged at thefe places, as well as ah a perpetual 
moderate current of freth le which may be beneficial to 
: r, of leaving the lappings 
e objected ns efpecially for very early 
werk. on account of the too free anc of air in. cold 
ere 
All the wood-work, both of the frames ig lights, ee 
be painted in oil, to preferve them from decay; a 
colour ‘wil be the mott a and if ae three as 
over, outfide and in, will preferve the wood exceedingly 
from the i ee of weather, and from the moifture of the 
- earth an 
Frames for Shefe purpofes are fometimes made in a fort of 
hollow brick-work, fo as to admit the heat from without. 
See Plate on Forcing Fra 
FRAME- — that fort ‘of forcing and _raifing uc 
productions an earl riod, which is verforme 
means of — and artifivial heat applied by t them. 
Forcine. 
RY, Nicworas i in Bingroph Ye 
This genious gentleman i is ony men y orde, 
in his «* Effais fur la Mufique,”’ as a French | rric aes who 
has furnifhed «© Le Theatre Tealien” with many fuccefsful 
adding, * oie owe im * La Colonie,’? 
n ts kind, which — fills the 
heatre, though it has as reprefented 
nes 
e all 
never fails ae ie prodigious crowds. M. Frame- 
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