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THE COLD PIT. 



indulge in them, from supposing it absolutely necessary to have a green- 

 house for their protection. 



To the genera enumerated as fit plants for the Protecting Tent, 

 {which seey) many more might be added as calculated for the Cold 

 Pit : indeed, it is more difficult to say -svhat plants, strictly greenhouse 

 ones, will not thrive in such a structure, than to enumerate those that 

 will. Those in the following Ust, however, are capable of being well 

 cultivated in the Cold Pit. 



^ye have been principally induced to compile this List with a view to 

 direct the attention of cultivators, particularly amateur ones, to the possi- 

 bihty of indulging in the growth of exotic plants without going to the 

 expense of erecting greenhouses for their protection. We shaU also, from 

 a somewhat similar motive, prepare an extensive List of Plants, under the 

 head of Acclimatizing, which have hitherto been considered as strictly in- 

 habitants of the Greenhouse, but which experience has proved will stand 

 in the open air of our best-situated gardens in ordiuaiy seasons. 



