34 BRITISH MODES OF CULTIVATING 



SECT. II. 



Of the Culture of the Pine, as given by Phillip Miller 

 in his Gardener's Dictionary* 



Form of House. It was formerly the practice, 

 Miller observes, to build dry stoves, in which the 

 plants were kept in winter, placed on scaffolds, 

 after the manner in which orange-trees are placed 

 in a green-house ; and in summer, in hot-beds ot 

 tanners' bark, under frames. But it is now the 

 practice, he adds, to erect low stoves, called the 

 succession-house, with pits therein for the hot-bed. 

 It is also necessary to have a bark-pit under a deep 

 frame, for bringing forward the suckers and crowns 

 to supply the succession-house. 



Mr. Miller's fruiting-house has upright glasses in 

 front, high enough to admit a person to walk up- 

 right on the walk in front of the house. Over the 

 upright glasses there must be a range of sloping- 

 glasses, " which must run to join the roof, which 

 should come so far from the back wall as to cover 

 the flues and the walk behind the tan-pit ; for if the 

 sloping glasses are of length sufficient to reach 

 nearly over the bed, the plants will require no more 

 light : therefore these glasses should not be longer 

 than is absolutely necessary, that they may be the 

 more manageable." 



The difference between this stove and that of 

 Speedily is, that in the latter the sloping sashes 

 reach to the back wall, by which means, instead of 



