Nineteenth century horticulture

674. The nineteenth century commenced by extraordinary efforts in horticulture. The culture of exotic fruits and forcing has been greatly extended; and while in the middle of the eighteenth century scarcely a forcing-house was met with, excepting near the metropolis, there is now hardly a garden in the most remote county, or a citizen's potagery, without one or more of them. The public markets, especially those of the metropolis, are amply supplied with forced productions; and far better pines, grapes, and melons are grown in Britain than in any other part of the world.