By Mr. Isaac Oldaker. 17/> 



I forced flowers for Lady Banks, cutting the plants down 

 to within a few buds of their roots. The heat of the house 

 was from fifty-four to sixty degrees of Fahrenheit's 

 thermometer. The plants made strong shoots, and by the 

 middle of March, their young branches were about eighteen 

 inches long : at this time they were taken out of the flower- 

 house and placed under a Melon-frame, the glasses of which 

 were taken off in the day, and only put on at night, to exclude 

 frosts : no heat being applied to them in this situation, the 

 change of climate operated so as not only to check their 

 growth, but to put them artificially into a state of rest, as 

 in the winter; the young wood having been previously well 

 ripened with the effect of the summer warmth, they broke 

 out into blossom by the end of July, and most of them were 

 completely covered with flowers. 



