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( %. 16, h h ) to give them a better draught ; and 

 this also serves to drain the back border. 



The houses are placed in pairs, the furnaces for 

 general use at the extreme ends of the range, and 

 the auxiliary ones in the middle, where the steam- 

 boiler is also placed, but worked by a fire apart. 



On the w r hole, no plan of Pine-stove that has 

 yet appeared, is more simple, neat, economical, 

 and complete than this ; the only fault we have 

 to them, is, that owing to the great thickness of 

 wood employed on the bars of the sashes, they are 

 rather dark and gloomy within ; but this might 

 easily be remedied by the substitution of light iron 

 rafters, with wooden framed sashes sliding in them, 

 but the bars of the sashes formed of iron. It is 

 true, gloomy as these houses are, the Pines thrive 

 in them as well as can be wished, but probably by 

 having more light, they might thrive, so as to sur- 

 pass all expectation. 



Soil. Good yellow loam, with a third of rotten 

 dung, and some road grit to serve as sand. This 

 is well mixed together, and passed through a wide 

 screen, and the pots are well drained with three 

 or four pieces of potsherd. 



General management. This differs in little or 

 nothing from that of Mr. Andrews ; and only from 

 that of Mr. Baldwin in the crowns and suckers 

 being struck in pots, instead of the bark, as is 

 Mr. Baldwin's practice. Supposing the crowns and 

 suckers potted in September, they are not dis- 

 turbed till the following March j such as are very 



