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clean, and wipe dry, all the stage, benches, floor, &c. after which 
the whole will assume a neat, gay, lively, and becoming appear- 
ance. 
The plants now should have as much free air as possible, during 
the continuance of mild weather, for if kept too close the damps oc- 
casioned by a copious perspiration, would cause many of their leaves 
to become mouldy and drop off, and besides, they would be less 
hardy on the approach of winter: therefore, on every warm or mild 
day keep the windows open; and even on mild dry nights, during 
the rem.ainder of this montli, you may slide down the upper front 
lights, so as to admit a little air at top. But observe to keep the 
windows close shut, in cold weather, frosty nights, and during the 
continuance of cold rains or fogs. 
It will still be necessary to water the plants frequently, but 
moderately, especially the shrubby kinds; the succulent sorts will 
not require it so often. 
Pick off from time to time, all decayed leaves, and keep every 
part of the house constantly clean and free from filth of any kind. 
The deciduous Green-house plants, such as the Lagerstramia 
indica, Pumca, granata, or double flowering pomegranate, Croton 
sebiferum, or tallow-tree, &c. may be placed on a platform erected 
at the back of the stage, as noticed in page 90, or they niay be pre- 
served very well during the winter, in a dry warm cellar, that has 
windows to admit light, air, &c. as necessity may require. 
Preserving Green-House Plants in Garden-Frames. 
There are but few Green-House plants of a small size, but may 
be preserved during winter, in great perfection, in garden frames 
of the following construction. 
The frame should be erected on a bed of earth in a remarkably 
dry and warm exposure; it should be made of strong planks, four, 
five, or six feet high in the back (according to the size of the plants) 
eight or nine inches high in front, and four or five feet wide, with 
the ends sloping accordingly. The length should be in proportion 
to the number of plants you have to winter, but at every nine or ten 
feet, there should be partitions or stays in the inside for the support 
of the back. 
Round this frame you are to form another, at the distance of two 
feet therefrom, made of any kind of rough boards, supported by 
posts, and of the same height. The vacancy between both frames 
is to be filled up to the top with tanner's bark, dry litter, leaves of 
trees, or any other substance that will keep the frost from pene- 
trating to the plants. 
Your frame being thus made, plunge the pots containing the 
plants, to their rims, in the inside, either in tan, or light sandy 
earth, placing the lowest in front and the tallest behind, and cover 
the whole with well glazed and well fitted sashes. During the 
most severe winter, the generality of Green-House plants may be 
effectually preserved in this, or the like frame, by laying on as oc- 
casion requires, a sufficient quantity of mats over the glasses, and 
over these a covering of boards. 
