THE MANUAL OP GARDENING. 
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for heated air, from the main furnace supplying the house (if it be 
so heated, now a very common occurrence,) by keeping a ther- 
mometer in the bath-house, and providing for the proper evapo- 
ration of moisture, which will correct the otherwise injurious 
effect of the heated air, plants may be kept in fine health, and 
without the necessity of an additional fire, the removal of a shut- 
ter, or any of the manual labour attending the green-house ; and 
as in such a situation water is carried into the room by pipes, the 
whole management may be conducted by the ladies of the house- 
hold, for whose special gratification (and the management of 
them is an essential part of the enjoyment derived from them) 
plants are usually kept. Birds in cages, goldfish in globes, may 
also be kept here, and if the room were sufficiently large to admit 
a rustic seat, it would be an agreeable lounge for an hour in 
pleasant weather, or a spot to which a visiter might be introduced 
with pleasant effect. We could scarcely recommend this arrange- 
ment when the proper apparatus for heating does not exist. If 
a stove, for instance, be relied on, constant care would be requi- 
site, to keep the temperature uniform; and even then, the plants 
immediately surrounding the stove would be almost certain to be 
scorched and killed. 
Many hardy green-house plants, and those of the most desira- 
ble kind too, may be kept without difficulty in a light airy cellar, 
where the soil is dry, and moisture consequently filters, or rapidly 
passes off. Here, without further attention than an occasional 
watering and admission of fresh air, for a few hours every day, 
when the weather is not severe, Roses, Cape Jasmines, Olean- 
ders, Lager strcemias, Myrtles, Azalias , the Citrus tribe , with 
many other plants which contribute so greatly to the summer 
ornament of the garden, maybe kept with success; certainly 
not so well as in more favourable locations, but where nothing 
better is at command, the cellar may be useful as an aid to our 
summer enjoyment; indeed it would be an easy matter in the 
construction of a dwelling, so to arrange a portion of the cellar 
with open area, and capacious windows, as to admirably adapt it 
to the keeping of hardy green-house plants (including Camellias,') 
without fire heat; and in city residences, where space is an 
object, and the garden must be curtailed by any out-house struc- 
ture, it would be a desirable arrangement; and one which would 
cost but a trifle, if it were a part of the plan when the house was 
being constructed. 
Supposing the means for protection to be in readiness, we will 
proceed to make some general remarks as to the management 
of such plants as require protection. 
About the 1st of October, or some seasons a week earlier, it 
will be prudent to prepare the plants for their winter quarters. — 
Those which have not been repotted during the summer, and 
may appear to require an extension of room, (of which the culti- 
