The forcing, fruit, and kitchen gardener by Nicol Walter

Author:Nicol, Walter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forcing (Plants), Gardening
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for W. Creech
Published: 1802-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Autumn drefs off the leaves, &c. as before-They will be fit for forcing any time after Chriftmas. Of all the kinds, the fear-let is to be preferred.

As the plants are of no ufe after being forced, a quantity fliould be prepared' as above, every feafon, where they are in re-queft.

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CHAPTER XI.

TffE GREEN-HOVSE.

SECTION I.

On tie ConftruRion of the Greep-Houfe*

THIS compartment being an object of tafte alone, is more fubjed to diver->fity in its conftrudtion, and that too with more propriety, than any other in the garden. And although the gardener (if a judge) fhould have the fole direction in building the different fpecies of forcing-houfes 5 yet the fancy of the proprietor, I fpeak in general terms, in refpecS of the Green-houfe or Confervatory, may be more fafely indulged in: flnce nothing is at ftake here in comparifon to what is in the pinery, grape-houfe, or peach-houfe.

Many Green-houfes are not paved* This,

in my opinion, is erroneous; as the water

that drops from the plants, in watering,

caufes much damp in Winter, which is

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