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or bring them to a certain degree of per- 

 fection in our Northern regions ; but con- 

 venience has rendered it necessary, to have 

 separate houses for many of them ; epeci- 

 ally such as are cultivated for their fruit, 

 which is generally wanted in quantity ; 

 a circumstance which has urged the 

 researches of man so forcibly forward, 

 that the cultivation of these plants is 

 pretty generally known at the present day. 

 Therefore, in speaking of the management 

 of Hot-houses, I must not be understood 

 to mean those which are used as Pine 

 stoves, or Forcing-houses, the operations 

 peculiar to these having been already so 

 frequently, and so ably discussed : my 

 purpose being to confine myself merely to 

 those in which tender flowering shrubs, 

 and other ornamental plants are cultivated; 

 which are for the most part intended, for 

 the instruction, or amusement of the 

 proprietor. 



At a period when the other branches of 

 Horticulture are making such rapid strides 



