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CHAPTER II. 



SECTION I. 



Th e management of green-house plants being 

 so materially different from those of the stove, 

 it becomes evidently necessary to treat of them 

 under a separate head ; yet I shall proceed 

 with them in a similar manner to that which I 

 have already observed in speaking of those 

 plants, in the preceding Chapters, i. e. to ex- 

 plain, in the clearest manner, the general 

 process necessary for their culture and good 

 management. 



On account of the variety and number of 

 these plants, it is rather difficult to reduce 

 them to any one certain rule ; not only because 

 they are less expensive, and consequently more 

 cultivated, but also that our milder climates, 

 are found to produce plants in greater abund- 

 ance than the Torrid Zones. 



Therefore the business of shifting in this 

 department is, in general, a more weighty 

 concern than in that of hot-house plants ; in 



