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commendable to remove, in the summer months, all duplicates, and the hardier or 
coarser kinds, to the out-door situation ; for if they are injured by being- exposed to 
the open air, they will, shortly after being re-introduced, recover what they may 
have lost in leaves or branches; and the stag^e in the greenhouse, previously 
occupied by greenhouse plants, may be filled with tender annuals, which will make 
a very gay appearance when in bloom, besides adding an additional feature of 
interest, an acquisition so very desirable, particularly in small places. Nor would 
we only recommend that duplicates or the coarser kinds be taken out, but that 
every species (making very particular ones exceptions) be removed to a proper 
situation. The principal objections urged in favour of turning greenhouse plants out 
are, that in the greenhouse they are exposed to the direct rays of the sun, and 
consequently the roots being often found at the inside surface of the pots, sutfer 
injury from being dried up from the too great, in this instance, degree of heat, 
and what gives much force to this argument is, that it is our best and most choice 
species that suffer most in this case. The result of this is, that a brown and sickly 
aspect is given to the plants, and not unfrequently renders them naked, by the 
premature decay of many of their leaves. These disadvantages, if such they can 
be called, are easily remedied by shading the house slij^htly with canvass, which is 
easily, and with a trilling cost, effected. In places where a greenhouse solely devoted 
to greenhouse plants is kept, it is most frequently found to be upon a large scale, 
and consequently it would be found no very easy matter to furnish the stage with 
annual or other plants, after the proper greenhouse plants were taken away ; and if 
this were indifferently done, the house, always intended to be a place of interest and 
amusement, would become neglected and unfrequented for the want of something 
to realise the objects it was erected purposely to create. We would say, inferring 
from the little advantage or loss accruing from the practice of either systems, that, 
in places where a large greenhouse is, to turn out of doors all duplicates in the 
summer season is commendable, thus making more room for the remainder to 
grow ; and in the autumn the duplicates may be re-introduced without injury, as 
they will bear to stand much closer in the winter than in the summer : on the 
other hand, where only a small greenhouse is kept, it is commendable to expose all 
during three or four months in the summer, and the greenhouse made up as before 
noticed. The situation best suited for plants of this description, is one rather 
sheltered on all sides, particularly from the wind in the west, and intense sun 
southward ; if the situation is bleak, they are liable in windy weather to be blown 
over, which a judiciously selected spot will prevent ; too great an exposure to the 
sun is injurious, inasmuch as it is liable to scorch the foliage and give the plants 
a sickly appearance. An east or a north east aspect is to be preferred. 
We have seen a very pleasing effect created by planting the commonest kinds 
of greenhouse plants in beds in the flower-garden, and placing in a novel manner, 
round the margin, a kind of planed lath, of a foot or more in length, so as to allow 
three or more inches to fasten each in the ground ; and across the centre of the 
bed a half circular hoop is bent, which, when neatly executed, will represent a wicker 
basket filled with living plants in full bloom. The accompanying diagrams 1 and 2 
