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* Building. 
OF GARDENING. 
As they encreafe in Bignefs, they mutt be re- 
moved from Time to Time into freth Pots of larger 
Size ; and every Time there muft be as much of 
the old Mould preferved about them as will fectire | 
SSASSOALAS ROSAS ROA RACTIVE SESELTS 
them from receiving any Check in the Removal ; 
and they fhould Be every Timne fhaded till well 
rooted. 
SECTION IL 
The Con firuttion of a GREENHOUSE. 
TE have | given the ‘needful Directions for 
chufing the Ground for a Garden, dif- 
pofing the feveral Parts, and covering the Walks 
with Grafs and Gravel. ; iat 7 
The Subject of Compofts; with the Manner of 
_ planting, we have delivered at large undet the ge- 
netal and particular Culture of more than three 
: Hundred curious Plants and Flowers, with which 
we purpofe it fhould be enriched; and as many 
of thefe are too tender to bear the cold Air of 
our Winters, though they will very well endure 
the open Seafons in our more favourable Months ; 
it follows here in courfe, that we give the Manner 
‘of conftructing the Building in which they, are to 
be fheltered during that fevere Time. 
Let the Gardener underftand that the general 
Intent of a Greenhoufe is to encreafe the natural 
Warmth ‘of the Air about the Plants preferved in 
it; and this on all common Occafions, without 
the Affiftance of actual Fi ire : but as in’ our vari- 
able Climate there are fometimes Winters more 
fevere than ufual, there fhould always be the 
Means of giving this Affiftance, however feldom. 
Here isthe great Article; and there’ 
muft be occafionally the Means of Shelter: the | 
| than the: Breadth, 
it is done. 
Air mutt be admitted when mild, and there 
muft be the Opportunity of doing this in va- 
rious Degrees. 
On thefe Principles he will underftand, that his 
Greenhoufe mutt be fo conftructed as to give him 
Opportunities of admitting or fhutting out the 
Air and Sun, as either is in a Condition to do 
good or hurt to the Plants. 
Let him firft chufe a proper Spot. It mutt 
be open to the South, and the more’ it is 
fheltered from the North and Eaft Winds the 
better. It muft be in a Part of the Ground where 
the Soil is'dry, and if there be a natural Rife fo 
much the better, 
‘In this Place let him mark the Plan of his 
intended Building ; and in the Defign, let nothing | 
- more have Céafderatan' 
It is common to load a 
Greenhoufe with upper Rooms, but that is wrong. 
The back Wall may ferve for the erecting of Sheds 
for Tools, and other fuch like Purpofes, but no- 
thing more fhould-be done. The Superftruéture 
fhould never ‘be allowed, becaufe it implies a So- 
lidity below’ which is out of the Charaéter of the 
Tehe Sheds behind are, on the contrary, 
right, becaufe they rather are a Support, ferving 
in the Manner of Buttreflés to the main Wall. 
‘The Sight is alfo offended at a tall heavy Build- 
‘ing in a Garden; and its Shadow is hurtful. A’ 
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{} be carried wp over the Greenhoufe, 
off obliquely from the Front inwards, 
-Greetthoule properly built: is in Charaéter, and is 
an Ornament : bur fuch an Edifice is a Piece of 
Lumber. 
The Extent of the Plan mutt be adapted to 
the Number of the Plants intended to be pre- 
ferved ; but in this it will be always proper to 
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make it larger rather than lefs, than the intended’ 
Quantity might feem to demand. Botany is a 
very” tostvidohiak Study, and thofe who enter at 
all into it, generally ¢ go farther than they at _ 
thought they fhould. 
- This Difference in the Extéie concerns only 
the Length of the Building ; - for its Depth is 
fubjett to a regular Meafure, being limited by 
the Nature of the Defign. Fifteen Foot is the 
proper Space of the Floor in Breadth; and 
though Proportion might demand that in longer 
Bese. this. een be greater, and in fhorter 
lefs ; yet the Care of the Plants is the fole Con- 
fideiadon the Gardener fhould regard, and _ there- 
fore this Meafure may ftand good for all Green- 
houfes. 
The Back is to be a ftrait, uptown Wall; and 
the Front in a manner all Glafs. 
The Height fhould be in front one eighth more 
confequently the Windows 
fhould be fixteen Foot in Length, and they 
| fhould reach from the Top to within ten Inches 
of the Ground: a Wall of that Height being 
raifed to receive them, 
Here then is the Form of the Greenhoufe, the 
Back, and the Ends are to be of Brick; and a 
low Wall of Brick in front: from this are to be 
raifed Safhes to the Cieling: thefe fhould be five 
Foot and a half in Breadth, and Piers of Brick 
mutt ‘be carried up between them rot the Support 
of. the Roof. Be 
We ‘have faid that the F ront fhould be as 
nearly as may be all Glafs, confequently thefe 
Piers ‘fhould be as natrow as poffible. They 
would require more Breadth if any Rooms were 
but we 
nave declared againft ‘that Pragtice : therefore 
flicht Piers will ante: and thefe fhould be thin’d 
‘In this 
Cafe-they will be of very little Difadvantage, and 
they will give an Air of Strength to the Build- 
ing. 
TR yely Part of the Houfe muft be contrived 
for Warmth, and for Defence _againft the Frofts. 
In the firit Place, the Floor fhould be raifed fif- 
teen. Inches above the Ground, that no Damps 
may come ‘that’ Wa ay; and the next Care muft 
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