JAN.] THE HOT-HOUSE. lot 



such a check by the transition, as many cannot recover during the 

 summer, and causing many more to appear much less beautiful than 

 they otherwise would, were they gradually inured to the open air in 

 the hot-house before their being brought out, by occasionally sliding 

 open the roof as well as the front glasses, and never letting the heat 

 arise in the house to too high a degree. 



NURSERY AND SUCCESSION STOVES. 



Besides the main bark-stove already described, it is very convenient 

 to have one or two smaller, such as a nursery-pit, and a succession 

 stove, particularly where there are large collections, and more espe- 

 cially in the culture of pine-apples ; one serving as a nursery-pit, in 

 which to strike and nurse the young offspring crowns, and suckers of 

 the old pines for propagation ; the other as a succession- house for re- 

 ceiving the year old plants from the nursery-pit, and forwarding them 

 a year to a proper size for fruiting as succession plants, to furnish the 

 main stove or fruiting-house every autumn, to succeed the old plants 

 then done fruiting. 



These smaller stove departments prove materially useful in the 

 culture of pines, particularly to raise and nurse the young plants, 

 until arrived at a proper age and size to produce fruit, then moved 

 into the main stove or fruiting-house, which being thus supplied 

 from these smaller stoves, with a succession of fruiting-plants an- 

 nually, without being crowded or incommoded with the rearing of 

 the said succession plants, proves a particular advantage, not only in 

 the culture of the fruiting-plants, as they often require a higher de- 

 gree of heat than the succession plants at particular times, in order 

 to forward and improve the growth of their fruit, but it is also mak- 

 ing the best advantage of this main department, to have the bark-bed 

 instantly filled with fruiting-plants only, producing a full crop of 

 proper sized pine-apples every year, which could not always be effected 

 with such certainty and perfection without the aid of these succes- 

 sion-stoves, because the pine-plants in their infant state require some- 

 times different management from the fruiting-plants, particularly in 

 respect to the degree of fire-heat, which, in general, should be more 

 moderate than for the fruiting-plants, lest too much should force them 

 into fruit in their minor growth, when incapable of producing such 

 in any tolerable perfection. 



Therefore, these smaller succession-stoves may be erected as ap- 

 pendages to the main house, or may be detached at some little dis- 

 tances, as may be convenient ; though if the situation admits, it may 

 be both more convenient and ornamental to join them in a line with 

 the main stove, one at each end, and nearly of the same construction, 

 but smaller both in length, width, and height, if thought proper : 

 these are sometimes formed in the manner of a common detached 

 bark-pit, without any upright glasses in front, having a wall all 

 around, five or six feet high behind, gradually sloping at each end 

 to about four feet in front, and with only sliding glasses at top, more 

 particularly the nursery-stove, commonly and simply called the pit, 

 because the whole internal space in length and width is often allotted 



