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for want of more space, and a more wholesome atmosphere in 

 the winter. 



The above ten houses are all that are catalogued in Dr. 

 Lindley's Report. He alludes to the brick pits attached to 

 many of them " on the outside," and to " a damp pit for 

 raising seedlings;" the former are, generally speaking, remov- 

 ed, as alterations take place in the houses ; for they are very 

 unsightly, and the glass suffers much from the fall of snow 

 and ice from the roofs above during the winter ; and the latter 

 is so changed, that we shall, in continuing the catalogue, 

 call it 



No. 13. This " Damp Pit" was a deep frame or brick pit, 

 forty feet long, with a single row of lights, facing the South, 

 situated immediately in front of the dry stove, No. 5, and is 

 now raised and doubled, by a span roof, and fitted up with 

 tables and shelves, and iron pipes, and iron tanks, and is one 

 of the completest and most useful moist stoves in the esta- 

 blishment. In it a great number of our rarest tropical plants 

 are kept, till such time as they are fit for the larger stoves. 

 Here are, at this period, some fine young Bread-fruit Trees; 

 the hitherto almost unknown (to Naturalists) Teak of Africa, 

 often called African Oak; the almost as little known Na- 

 poleonea imperialis; a large - flowered new Gardenia (G. 

 btanleyana, Hook.), and other treasures of Western Africa, 

 brought over by Mr. Whitfield, and presented by the Earl of 

 Derby ; the curious Lace-Bark Tree, and the equally singu- 

 lar aquatic (Pistia Stratiotes); the splendid Clerodendron 

 speciosissimum, &<•., &c. 



Another moist stove we shall designate as 



No. 14. It is situated in the recess of the garden, above 

 mentioned, near the British Garden, and between the houses, 

 Nos. 7 and 8, and is a low building fifty feet long, with a 

 double span roof, divided transversely into two compartments, 

 heated by iron pipes and tanks, and designed for a Propagat- 

 ing House and Hospital for tropical plants, to which it is 

 admirably adapted. Many or most of the new importations 

 are lodged for a while here, seeds are raised, and cuttings 

 struck. The crowded state of the Orchideous house (No. 7) 

 requires that several of the Orchideous plants should be re- 

 moved into this one ; but it is only a temporary measure. As 

 the contents are not, in general, stationary, it is hardlv n&d- 

 tal to speak of them; but I may observe that, at the present 

 period, it contains many interesting Orchideous and other 



