CONTENTS. 



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The culture of standards for orchards 276 



The cultivation of small fruits 276 



CH AP. IV. Of the culture of culinary exotics . • 277 



The pine 277 



vine. 278 



Modes of accelerating the ripening of the fruit 279 



retarding the ripening of the fruit... 279 



Melons and cucumbers 281 



Passiflora quadrangularis •••• 281 



Cactus opuntia, or Indian fig 282 



Oranges • 282 



CHAP. V. Of forcing vegetables into a slate of growth or fruit at particular or unnatu- 

 ral seasons 28 3' 



Forcing by mechanically operating upon the vegetable, or 



altering the nature of the soil only 283 



by preservation, &c 285 



by removing vegetables into an artificial climate. 286 



CHAP. VI. Of the construction of hot-houses, hot- walls, pits, hot-beds, and mushroom- 

 houses. 



General, history of the rise and progress of building hot-houses 286 



Plans of Speechly, Abercrombie, Nicol, &c 288 



. — Dr. Anderson, Stewart, &c 289 



the late John Mawer, Esq 290 



Hot-houses, their requisite properties 291 



Heat, how produced in. them... 295 



Soil, air, light, water,.wind,.how produced 293 



Hot-houses for peaches, cherries, figs, &c .- 294. 



. — vines .....^ 2 ^^ 



pines 295 



Hot-walls 296 



Pits 297 



Hot-beds... • " 299 



Mushroom-houses • 299 



CHAP. VIL Of other buildings which are requisite for a kitchen garden 300 



Sheds for implements, &c • 300 



Seed-rooms, fruit-rooms, &c 300 



Covered seats, porches, porticos, &c 301 



CHAP. VIII. Of the formation of orchards 302 



Family orchards - • 302 



