Jan.] THE HOT-HOUSE. K)7 
best for forcing; for this purpose they should be taken up and 
planted in proper sized pots, eiiher in the months of September or 
October, as then directed, and protected in garden-frames, till want- 
ed for forcing; but, if the weather permits, you may take them up at 
any time, with balls of earth about their roots, planting one good plant 
in each pot; always observing, to choose those of two or three years 
old, and which are full of bearers. 
Place these pots towards the front of the hot-house, near the 
glasses, and let them have water frequently, especially when they 
are in blossom, and setting young fruit; but observing at these 
times not to water too freely over the flowers, for fear of washing 
off the impregnating farina, giving it chiefly to the earth in the 
pots. 
Of Flowering Plants in the Hot-house. 
You may now introduce into this department, many kinds of 
ftewering plants, to be forced into bloom at an early season; such 
as honey suckles, African-heaths, double-flowering dwarf almonds, 
and cherries, Sec. also pots of pinks, carnations, daisies, double 
sweet-williams, rockets, wall and stock-gilly-flowers, See. and pots 
or glasses of any kind of bulbous roots, planted either in earth or 
water, may also be introduced, with a variety of curious annual flow- 
ers, which may be sown in pots, and forwarded there to early per- 
fection. 
