180 THE HOT-HOUSE. [Feb. 
The best time of the clay for the admission of fresh air, is from 
about twelve to one, two, or three o'clock; but for the time of open- 
ing or shutting the glasses, let the weather be the guide. 
Of Kidney-beans in the Hot-house. 
Now plant some more kidney-beans, of the early while, cream- 
coloured, yellow, or speckled dwarfs, Sec. in pots or boxes, and 
place them in the hot-house to succeed those planted last month; 
or if none was then planted, this is a very successful time, superior 
to the former month, for planting a good hot-house crop; and manag- 
ed as directed in January, page 105. 
Do not forget to refresh with water, those kidney-beans which 
were planted last month; they will require it two or three times a 
week: give also necessary waterings to the young beans advancing 
for successive crops. 
Of blowing Roses and other Plants early. 
You may now, in the beginning of this month, set pots of roses, 
and honeysuckles, &c in the hot-house; or pots of bulbous roots, 
carnations, pinks, and double sweet-williams, or of any other desira- 
ble flowering plants, either of the shrub or herbaceous kinds, which 
you desire, by way of curiosity, to bring to an early bloom, supply- 
ing them, when in growth, with plenty of water. 
Likewise, about the middle and end of the month, you may in- 
troduce more of the same sort of flowering-plants to produce flow- 
ers in regular succession. 
You may also introduce pots .sown with seeds, of any desirable 
annuals, of moderate growth, to flower early, such as mignonette, 
balsams, ten-weeks stock, &c. &c. 
Of Cucumbers in the Hot-house. 
Where it is desired to raise early cucumbers in the hot-house, 
some seed may now be sown as directed last month, or young plants 
planted therein, from any common hot-bed. See Hot-house for 
January. 
Early Straivberries. 
You may now introduce into the hot-house, pots of the scarlet 
and alpine strawberries, either to succeed those of last month, or as 
a first introduction. Let them be two years old bearing plants; 
place them near the glasses, or plunge them in the bark-bed to for- 
ward them earlier, giving proper supplies of water. 
If some fresh plants are taken into the hot-house every three 
weeks, you may obtain a constant supply of early fruit, till those in 
the open ground ripen. 
Or pots of strawberry plants kept in moderate dung hotbeds 
to forward them, may be removed in successive order into the hot- 
house; they will produce a supply of early fruit in regular suc- 
cession. 
