Jem. 14th.— Soilless day . heat 71° ; a tittle water was given 

 at 4 o'clock. 



Jam,, loth. — Little sunshine, heat this morning 7 5 1} : water 

 at 4 as usual. 



Jam. 16th. — Heat this morning 72°. plants m a fine slate, 

 cansed by the little snnshine vesterdav ; a little water at 4 

 o'clock. * 



Jan. 17th. — Heat 7*2° ; plants good ; a little water sprinkled 

 over the hot-air chambers once a day. unless the heat is very 

 strong, is better than more. I wish to see the plants a little 

 moist in the morning, but a lodgement of damp on them is 

 had, which is caosed by want of heat and air ; if short of heat 

 give no Ttater — but it is bad to ce snort of heat for any length 

 of time ; if the flower at the point of the fruit damps off before 

 the fruit is well formed it never makes a good fruit. I attach 

 great importance to night heat, air, and moisture : too much 

 night heat causes the fruit blossoms to open prematurely, and 

 ?uch fruit never swells kindly ; toe iimle heat causes the 

 blossoms to damp off, and then the fruit never swells ; a 

 fitronr; heat in the front lining is a?:od. 



Jan. 13th. — The day dull and eold. _ ' : : frost : night and day 

 heat 7*2° ; plants seem to en ; oy it : :: appears to he just ~hat 

 they like : too much water b bad ; if at coverinz-up time the 

 heat is 70° well ; it will increase 3? or 4* before the morning, 

 with a little air at each light and a sitter mat : "raaata. 

 which is all that ?h :ui i be used, unless meat necessity from 

 extreme bad weather ; 74° is a fine heat in the morning when 

 the pits are uncovered. 



Jan. 19th — Five days and no sunshine : dark with little 

 frost ; fruit has swelled slowly at the expense of the plants ; 

 I never witnessed slower ^■■■Ifc 



Jan. 20th. -21st. and -2*2nd.— Weather dull; young fruit 

 seems to require a little sunshine to start tit eta after at ; ~eraaaj : 

 once started they will swell in dull weather. 



J.: -I. Cord. — Sun ?h:ue to-day a fe~ it; tars, ha- the ^aaai 

 was excessively cold : a little extra cc^eraaar. ~as used, aaaa :ut 

 little water rjven : 11' of frost on the morning of the 24th. 

 the coldest night up to this time. 



Jan. 24th. — Heat this morning 75P ; great improvement in 

 the plants from the few hours' sun yesterday : the sun has 

 shone out the whole da . , heat up to -? v - to-day : the mercury- 

 has been eel: — zero the whole day in the shade ; the plants 

 had one inch of air at each light, and a small pot of water 

 was given to each light over plants and hot-air chambers. 



Jan a.5th. — There was a fall of sat: - in the rharht : heat in pit 

 at 10 at night was 75° ; a little more air was given ; there was 



