JAN.] THE HOT-HOUSE. 109 



ally obtained, for the same individual plants never produce fruit but 

 once; they, however, produce a plentiful supply of crowns and suckers 

 which commence proper plants, attaining a fruiting state in regular 

 succession. 



However, in many places, the situation or convenience not admit- 

 ting but of one common stove to raise and forward the pines and 

 other exotics in their different stages of growth, at least with probably 

 the assistance only of a small detached bark-pit, or a bark and dung 

 hot-bed under a large garden frame, to strike and nurse the yearling 

 crowns and suckers of the pines, c., of each year, until they are 

 about a year old, then moved into the stove ; where, with the proper 

 requisite culture, are produced not only very good pine-apples, but 

 also many curious exotics, flowers, other fruits, &c., at an early 

 season. 



But having a main stove with two smaller ones adjoining nearly 

 on the same plan as above hinted, you can always, with greater 

 certainty, obtain a regular annual succession of fruiting pines in 

 perfection. 



A private passage or small door, made from the back shed into the 

 hot-house, close to one of the ends, or at any convenient place, will be 

 found extremely useful in severe weather for entering into the house 

 to examine the temperature of the heat, or to do the other necessary 

 work, when it would be ineligible to open the outer doors. 



It would be an eligible way, for persons who have large collections 

 of exotics, to have the green-house in the middle, with a stove and 

 glass case at each end ; the stoves to be next the green-house, and 

 the glass cases at the extremities, made exactly in the same manner 

 as the bark stoves, and to range with them. 



These glass cases being furnished with flues, but no bark-pits, are 

 in fact dry stoves ; they may be kept of different temperatures of 

 heat, and ought to be furnished with roof and front coverings of some- 

 kind to be used occasionally. The bark stoves may also be kept of 

 different temperatures, so as to suit the various habits of the plants. 



Thus by contriving the green-house in the middle, and a stove and 

 glass case at each end, there will be a conveniency for keeping plants 

 from all parts of the world ; which cannot be otherwise maintained 

 in good health, but by placing them in the different degrees of heat, 

 corresponding with that of their native countries. 



THE DRY- STOVE. 



This stove differs in no wise from the bark-stove, but in not hav- 

 ing a bark-pit; it is furnished with flues as the other, and conse- 

 quently produces a more dry heat; being intended principally for the 

 culture of some very succulent tender exotics of parched soils that 

 require it to be kept always dry. Persons who have full collections 

 of exotics prefer this kind of stove, in order to deposit the most suc- 

 culent kinds therein, separate from plants which perspire more freely, 

 lest the damp occasioned by such perspiration, and the more frequent 

 watering of these kinds, should be imbibed by the succulents and 

 injure them. 



