PART V. 



CULINARY GARDENING, 



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CHAPTER V. 



OF FORCING VEGETABLES INTO A STATE OF GROWTH OR 

 FRUIT AT PARTICULAR OR UNNATURAL SEASONS. 



This Is effected either by operations upon the vegetable 

 when in its natural climate, upon the soil in which it grows, or 

 by removing it into an artificial climate. 



L Forcing, by operating upon the vegetable or 

 the soil, is done in various ways, and from different known 

 facts in the economy of plants. The simplest mode of forcing 

 is by sowing or planting at an uncommon season; that is, 

 either later or earlier than usual. The next is, by placing the 

 vegetable in a warm and dry or cold and moist situation, or in 

 a hot or cold soil * ; by which it either comes into perfection 

 later or earlier than if placed in the medium between these two 

 extremes. The essences of every vegetable are its flowers and 

 fruit ; and every individual species grows, or has a continual 

 tendency to grow, until it produce these in perfection. An- 

 nuals in general do this the same season in which they are sown ; 



* See Chapter IV.— Vine. 



