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    Choice ofa House. 69

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    acquire more of the characteristic and _mature forms . The number of plants , and especially of trees , which can be cultivated in a suburban garden at one time is necessarily circumscribed ; but , if a suburban amateur chose to limit the

    period during which he cultivated each tree or plant to the time of its flowering with him for the first time , he might , in the course of a few years , more or less in number according to the size of his garden , have had growing in it all the plants in cultivation in the open

    air in Britain , with the exception of a few of the larger forest trees ; and even these he might also have flowered , by making use of plants raised from cuttings or layers , or of miniature trees , made by ringing and rooting the branches of old trees in the Chinese _manner .

    Independently , however , of the variety and change resulting from the plants cultivated , every month throughout the year has its particular operations and its products nay , it would not be too much to say , that during six months of the

    year a change takes place , and is perceptible , in the plants of a garden , every day ; and every day has , in consequence , its operations and its products . Even in winter , there is still something to do in

    every garden , however small may be its extent : the walks require to be kept in order , and some plants must be protected by litter or matting ; and , if there should be no trees to prune , no ground to dig , no manure to collect or to barrow

    Out , no dung to turn and prepare for hotbeds , there is , at all events , the preparation of names or numbers for plants ; the cutting and painting of rods to tie them to ; the sorting of seeds ; the making of baskets ; and the search after

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    information on the subjects _> of plants and their culture , in books . " But imagine that to the suburban garden there is added a small green-house , or a ilued pit ! What a source of amusement and interest

    does not either of these garden structures hold out to the amateur gardener , during the winter and spring ! Exactly in proportion as , in autumn , the out-door _operation become fewer , the in-door operations of the green-house or pit

    become more numerous ; and , in midwinter , the citizen amateur , if he is detained in his shop or his counting-house till after sunset , will be under the necessity of shifting , cleaning , and watering his plants , and otherwise operating with them

    ( as some of our friends are obliged to do ) , by candle-light . A greenhouse , from the quantity of glass that it requires , is , for some suburban residences , too costly to erect ; but much of the produce of the green-house may be procured , at

    half the expense , by the use of a pit , which requires no other glass than the sashes which form its roof . The amusement and the products which such a pit , in the hands of an ingenious amateur , is calculated to afford , are almost without end .

    Small salading may be produced in it throughout the whole winter Chicory roots ( though this may be accomplished in a common cellar ) may be made to throw out their blanched leaves , which

    form the most delightful of all winter salads , at least to our taste ; tart rhubarb or sea-kale may be forced in pots ; as may parsley , mint , and other herbs . Bulbs

    may be forced ; and a bloom 6 f China roses may be kept up throughout the winter . But , perhaps , the most important use to which such a pit can be applied , in

    Choice Ofa House. 69

    Choice ofa House . 69

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/67/