FART V. CULINARY GARDENING. 29$ 



glass, without any other expence, the quadruple compartments 

 will make four excellent vineries, which may be brought into 

 fruit at the same number of periods. The general principle of 

 forming vineries in this manner will be found to answer equally 

 well with those raised above the surface and placed against 

 walls, and they may be executed in the first instance at much 

 less expence, 



4. Hotbeds are commonly formed of stable manure; either 

 alone; mixed with bark, moss, or coal ashes; with bark or moss 

 in the centre only; with brushwood and ashes in the centre; 

 or with turf, sand, or ashes on the top under the earth, &c 

 They are also occasionally formed of masonry, or brick-work, 

 and surrounded by dung, as in M c Phairs mode of cultivating 

 the cucumber; whose practice and hotbeds answer well for 

 early forcing, especially in England. This subject, however,, 

 being more connected with the cultivation of a garden than 

 the formation or design of it, I shall leave it to gardeners, it 

 being generally their favourite business.. 



5. Mushroom-houses require little ingenuity. If placed in. 

 a dry situation, they can seldom fail to answer. They may 

 easily be contrived so as to be forced into perfection at all sea- 

 sons. The erecting of houses on purpose for them, however,, 

 is seldom requisite : an empty shed, barn, cottage, or cellar, are 

 generally the places in which they are raised. 



