210 PLANS FOR FORCING HOUSES. 



into hotbeds, warm borders, or protected frames. 

 for a succession, prior to the main summer 

 ground crops. 



Flowers likewise, of different varieties, can 

 be brought forward early in the hothouse, and 

 with proper arrangements, a succession kept up 

 during the latter part of the winter, and the 

 early spring months, such as hyacinths nar- 

 cissus, jonquils, dwarf tulips, irises, anemones, 

 ranuncules, and many other bulbous and tuberous 

 rooted flowers ; also many sorts of fibrous-rooted 

 plants, and ornamented shrubs, including pinks, 

 carnations, roses, honeysuckles, jasmines, double 

 blossom peach, double blossom almond, double 

 blossom cherry, Persian and Siberian lilacs, 

 rhododendrons, andromedas, kalmias, azalias, 

 camellias, &c. &c. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT PLANS FOR 

 FORCING HOUSES ; METHODS OF HEATING, 

 WITH GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



Par. 26. — The directions given in the first 

 paragraph for building hothouses, will, in the 

 main, be a sufficient description for forcing houses 



