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CARNATION PINKS, 

 These should be covered in winter with a box or 

 frame, or taken up with balls of earth, and planted 

 during the winter under a common hot-bed, with or with- 

 out glass, as they bear cold, but not Cold and moisture 

 at the same time. 



GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 



Among the plants w 7 hich have hitherto been intro- 

 duced to this country, none exceed those which have 

 been received from China and Japan ; in the former of 

 ■which countries they are said to excel all other nations 

 in the cultivation of flowers. It is also a happy circum- 

 stance, that nearly all the plants which have yet been 

 received from either of those countries, are among the 

 hardier kinds of Green-house plants, and succeed with 

 very little attention ; and, indeed, a number of them 

 are found to withstand the winters of the middle States* 

 It being, therefore, so desirable an object to obtain all 

 the valuable plants of those countries, arrangements 

 have been made to procure such as have already found 

 their way to Europe, as well as to add annually to the 

 collection by importation direct from China. 



ORANGE AND LEMON TREES, &c. 



The Orange, Lemon, Citron, and Shaddock, are 

 easily cultivated, and no trees will bear harder usage, 

 if they are only secured from cold and frost. They 

 may be removed every month in the year, and yet grow 

 well with the aid of shade and moisture. Early in Oc- 

 tober, they should be taken out of the boxes or pots in 

 which they are growing, with the balls of earth entire, 

 and have the sides and bottom shaved off about an inch 

 deep with a sharp knife^ to make room for fresh earth, 

 and then replace them in the pots or boxes, first cover 

 ing the holes at the bottom with shells or broken earthen : 



