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Excerpt from The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants Greenhouse plants are now also planted out much more commonly in the open air than they used to be, and for this purpose cuttings are made in autumn, and struck by plunging them into a hotbed; and the plants thus raised are kept during the winter in what is called a cold pit, and they are planted out in May or J une. A cold pit is formed by making an excavation in the ground about two feet deep, and lining it with brick. Ou this is set a frame with glass lights, like that used for a hotbed, and the plants which are put in it are kept as dry as possible. Air is given every mild day between ten and three o'clock; and the glass lights are covered with mats every evening between four and five, when it appears at all likely to freeze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.