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would be a secondary consideration; for the ameliorated light 
and heat admitted within them has advantages superior to 
glass, not but air must be given during mild days, to seedlings 
within them, and shade also may sometimes be required. 
Another purpose for which these cottage frames, as they may 
be called, will be found useful, after the young annuals have 
quitted their fostering care, is that of striking cuttings. In 
this department they may be used more or less during the 
whole of the summer. 3Iauy cuttings would strike readily, 
when enclosed in these frames, which would not root in the 
open ground; and others which will generally strike root in a 
shady border, will be much forwarded, and success be more 
certain when they are employed. 
The following plants, amongst others, we may mention as 
generally requiring to be propagated every year, and for which 
the assistance of these cheap frames will be found exceedingly 
useful; viz., various species and varieties of Fuchsia, Verbena, 
Carnation, Pink, Wall-flower, Pansy, Pelargonium, Dahlia, 
Salvia, Phlox, Petunia, Helianthemum, Iberis ; and a variety 
of more tender plants, also, may, with their assistance, be 
readily propagated, and ke|)t in the house during winter, for 
turning into the borders in May. In pursuing this subject of 
jjrotection to such plants as are of too delicate a constitution to 
bear the rigour of our winters, but on which much of the 
attraction and gaiety of a flower garden at the present day 
depends, we may add an article, from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
probably from the pen of Dr. Lindley, which contains some 
valuable hints on — 
210 Acclimatisixg Plants. “ In former days men entertained 
the most exaggerated ideas concerning acclimatising, and 
seemed to believe that all the productions of the tropics might 
be had in England, if we could but gradually inure such 
productions to the climate. As the negro could be acclima- 
tised, so it was thought could plants from Negroland. We 
were told that the course to follow was to accustom tender 
plants to cold climates by slow degrees; to introduce the 
productions of the tropics to Madeira, and there to save theii' 
seeds ; then in Spain or Portugal to sow those seeds, and 
when the plants thus obtained produced their fruits, to commit 
them to the earth in the warmer counties of England, or the 
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