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another regularly, i. e. the nursery pit containing the yearly crowns 

 and suckers, the succession pit the one and two years plants, and 

 the main stove the fruiting plants ; a constant succession is thereby 

 annually obtained; for the same individual plants never produce 

 fruit but once ; they, however, produce a plentiful supply of crowns 

 and suckers which commence proper plaints, attaining a fruiting 

 state in regular succession. 



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

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

 other exotics, in their different stages of growth ; at least with pro- 

 bably 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 cer- 

 tainty, obtain a regular annual succession of fruiting pines in per- 

 fection. 



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 collec- 

 tions 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 can not be otherwise main- 

 tained 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 to be kept always dry. Persons who have full collec- 



