CHAPTER n. 



OF STOCKING THE GREEN-HOUSE WITH PLANTS 

 AND TREES. 



Having completed the erection of the green-house, 

 the next thing is to furnish it with plants * on the 

 judicious selection of these depends much of the fu- 

 ture beauty and effect of the winter garden. 



With respect to the kind of plants, as the grand 

 object of a green-house is to produce flowers and 

 verdure during winter and spring, those plants 

 should chiefly be selected which are evergreens, and 

 which come into flower during these seasons. It 

 should further be considered, that where a profes- 

 sional gardener is not kept, only the more hardy and 

 easily cultivated of these sorts should be procured ; 

 as it is always more agreeable to see a thriving deep 

 green assemblage of growth and vei'dure, than a pale 

 sickly collection of rarities. 



Sect. I. Of Fruit- Trees hi a Green-house. 



Previously to selecting the green-house plants, 

 properly so called, it may be proper to inquire how 

 far the green-house may be made to supply a few 

 bunches of grapes, or a dozen or two of peaches, as 

 well as the beauty of winter verdure and flowers. 



