By observing these few hints you will pre- 
serve your plants with strong stems and leaves : 
so soon as the 4th, 5 th, or 6th of April arrives, 
or thereabouts, it is requisite they should have 
glass completely over them night and day, till 
they are in full bloom ; but during their stay 
under glass you must admit a proper portion 
of air behind the lights, and shade them, if re- 
quisite with a thin old mat, in preference to a 
one. This treatment will be for ten or 
twelve days (till about the 16th of April); much 
depends now on the state of the atmosphere, 
but I expect by this time a full south aspect is 
much too sunny; and will over hasten the 
bloom, and serve only to fade your fine colours; 
should this be the case, I most particularly re- 
commend an immediate removal to a full east 
(by no means a north as yet, it w’ould 
endanger the bloom) if the weather will admit, 
under a privet hedge, garden wall, or a pale 
fence, about eight or ten yards in length ; this 
will contain a single row of hand-glasses, of 
about ten or twelve in number, which will 
to bloom all your earliest flowers, to the 
number of sixty or seventy plants ; and by their 
remaining under those hand-glasses ten or 
twelve days, or thereabouts, I have no doubt 
but your earliest blossoms will be in such a 
