December 31, 1885.] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
585 
without it. Daring the whole of the time the plants are outside they are 
not allowed to suffer by want of water ; should they show signs of being 
ary they are watered. Our plants remain outside from the time they are 
not force so early as those that have remained outside. This is only 
(vhat need be expected if hi closes the frame and protects them from 
frost, for the plants protected would not be so completely rested as those 
Fig. 86.—the MONARCH plum (Rivers’). 
layered into their fruiting pots until they are removed indoors in batches 
to be forced. 
Your correspondent states that the plants protected in cold frames do 
exposed. If I placed my plants in frames'they would be freely exposed 
to all ordinary frosts, and only protected by closing the frames during 
! very severe wea'her, and then not for the benefit of the plants, but for the 
