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thick wall of turf and soil and stakes built up into 
a square, covered with thick thatched hurdles, and 
filled with plants and cuttings. Verbenas, Calceo- 
larias, Pinks, Carnations, and Roses, will thus 
often live all the winter safely, though in fine, dry 
weather they should have as much air as possible 
that they may not get damp, &c. ; damp kills a 
great many more plants than cold does. 
At one of the greatest gardens near London for 
Calceolarias, the young plants are kept all the winter 
in beds of sawdust under common hotbed frames,, 
which may be replaced very well by glazed calico 
“ lights.” Rut I think when one can get a table 
in some spare room, the best plan for keeping these 
things on a small scale is having the table placed 
near the window, and giving no more water than 
will keep them j ust alive, especially in this month,, 
which is so long before the spring. 
If, however, you do happen to try turf-pits out 
of doors, (directions for making which I gave you 
in October,) your grand care now must be to give 
them air on dry mild days, and to take off dead 
leaves, and then when it snows you may rest con- 
tented, and believe that the snow is making a 
warm wrap for them. 
The bulbs that are coming up should have some 
