PART II. CHAPTER I. ON THE CULTURE OF PINES, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR BUILD- Page Par. GENERAL description of Hothouses intended for Pines, including situations, aspects, &c.; also Different varieties of Pines, with Observations relative to their nature and culture Method of making the Bark-bed, its general Management and Utility Sorts of fuel for Fire-heat Regulation of heat, thermometer, &c. 164 10 Of Bark-bed and Fire-heat Giving Air and Water at different seasons Hot Water and Steam, the general uses thereof in Forcing, with Explanatory Remarks Management of the Bark-bed in the Pinery Occasional Revival of the Bark-bed Winter Management of Pines Spring Management of Pines 169 12 178 14 190 20 Summer Management of Pines Observations on Shifting Pines, including direc- tions for Autumn Management Insects, remarks thereon, with Instructions how to prevent them from being injurious Early Grapes in the Pinery Choice varieties of Fruits, Flowers, &c., in the Pinery Useful Remarks relative to the Chapter on Hot- house Building, &c. CHAPTER II. ON FORCING PEACHES, NECTARINES, AND APRICOTS, CHERRIES, GRAPES, AND OTHER CHOICE FRUITS. Observations relating to Peacheries, Vineries, Page Par. Preparing Borders for the trees, and the different Proper Seasons and Methods of Planting trees for Forcing Narrow Glass-houses for Forcing principally by Forcing Frames, for forcing Fruit trees by Bark- Vinery or Hothouse, principally for Forcing How to obtain Fruit trees intended for Forcing, 216 28 223 29 32 32 34 240 35 Management of Vines, and Seasons for Forcing 234 Forcing Forcing-house for Cherries, with its further Uses of Forcing generally Admitting Air, with Instructions for Watering Blights and Insects on Trees, how to prevent and destroy in Forcing houses The Seasons the different vårieties of Fruit ge- nerally attains maturity in Forcing-houses . CHAPTER III. CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR GROWING MELONS, WITH IN- Page Par. General Observations 257 44 Nature of the Melon Plant, its Culture, and Preparing dung, &c., for the Hotbeds, for raising Observations on raising Melons in different ways, the times for Sowing the Seed, with re- Method of Making Hotbed for raising Melon ral crops of Melons, with their Management therein, copiously laid down Manner of Treating Melons when in bloom Instructions for Renewing the Heat of the Hot- bed by linings Remarks relative to Melons while Ripening 2333 ཱ་༅་ ཱ་ Late Crops of Melons under Hand-glasses, &c. 279 56 Raising Melons in Oiled-paper Frames, with Directions for making the Frames How to save and preserve Melon Seed 282 57 285 58 288 59 Page Par. Strawberries, Introductory Remarks on growing 289 60 them Plants intended for Forcing Forcing Strawberries in the Pinery Forcing Strawberries in Peach and other Fruit Tree Forcing-houses, including Vineries Peas and Beans in Fruit-tree Forcing-houses purposes in Forcing-houses. choice Flowers in Forcing-houses |