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will forward them considerably, and some into small pots to be 
placed therein, three plants in each; others may be planted on a 
warm border, three inches asunder, and covered with hand-glasses; 
after they have stood a month all those not potted should be planted 
where they are to remain. 
Stockgilly-flowers and Wall-flowers. 
The choice double and other stockgilly-flowers and wall-flowers 
which you have in pots, and under the protection of any kind of 
covering, should never be exposed to a strong sun whilst in a frozen 
state; they will stand the winter with very little protection from 
frost, but must be carefully guarded against the sun's influence at 
such times. 
Forcing early Flowers. 
Where early flowers are required, either for ornament or for 
sale, you must prepare for this business in October, and then plant 
in suitable sized pots the various kinds that you intend to force; 
such as carnations, pinks, sweet-williams, double daisies, and other 
fibrous rooted plants. The earliest kinds of hyacinths, van-thol, 
and other early tulips, anemones, ranunculuses, jonquils, narcis- 
susses of various sorts, dwarf Persian irises, crocuses in different 
varieties, and many other kinds of early flowering bulbs, having 
been protected in a suitable manner, as heretofore directed; you 
may, about the beginning of this month, plant these pots, or such of 
them as you wish to force for the earliest bloom, in any forcing de- 
partment now at work, such as hot-houses, forcing-houses of any 
kind, hot-beds, &c. By plunging the pots into the bark-pits or hot- 
beds, you will have them to flower the sooner, .^s the hyacinths, 
carnations, and pinks advance, tie their flower stems to neat sticks, 
or to pieces of painted wire stuck into the pots for that purpose. 
You may likewise force pots of roses, honey-suckles, jasmines, 
double flowering almonds, thorns, cherries, and peaches, and also 
any other early flowering and desirable plants by the same means. 
Either of the preceding kinds may be forced in board forcing- 
frames, with the assistance of hot dung applied to the back and 
ends thereof; these being constructed of strong inch and a half, or 
two inch plank, made eighteen inches high in front and five or six 
feet high in the back, the ends in proportion, and length at pleasure. 
The width to be five or six feet, and the whole covered with sloping 
glasses. 
Having such a frame in readiness, fill the inside thereof to a level 
with the front with fresh tanner's bark, into which plunge your pots; 
or, if you have not the convenience of bark, sink a pit into the 
earth about eighteen inches deep, whicii fill to the surface with 
fresh horse-dung; place the frame thereon, and add more dung till 
it reaches within six inches of the upper part of the frame in front; 
then fill the remainder to that level with good dry earth. 
In either case plunge the pots to their rims in the bark or earth. 
