164 I'HE PLEASURE, OR [Feb. 
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, narcissuses of 
sorts, dwarf Persian irises, crocuses in ditferent varieties, and many 
other kinds of early flowering bulbs, having been protected in a 
suitable manner, as heretofore directed; you may, about the begin- 
ning of this month, plant these pots, or such of them as you wish 
to force for the earliest bloom, in any forcing department 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. As 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 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 to plunge 
your pots; or if you have not the convenience of bark, sink a pit 
into the earth about eighteen inches deep, which 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, 
and add a lining of good horse-dung to the back and ends of the 
frame, to its entire height, which will produce a strong growing 
heat in the inside, sufficient for any purpose of forcing small plants. 
The glasses being placed on this kind of frame, with a considerable 
degree of elevation, will receive the rays of the sun in a more direct 
manner, than if not elevated so much, by which means more heat 
will be accumulated. 
Shelves may be erected in this kind of frame, towards the back 
part, if the plants intended to be forced are not large, and the lining 
can be renewed as often as necessary. 
