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wooJv sorts succeed well enough in any part: 

 tiie bark-bed is principally allotted for the pine- 

 apples ; and most of the smaller succulents, par- 

 ticulnrl\-, may be stationed mostly over the top 

 of the flues upon shelves out of the way of mois- 

 ture, as being naturally very replete with hu- 

 midity : and tiie hardy plants designed for for- 

 cing, such as strawberries, kidney beans, and 

 various sorts of flowers, &c., that are potted, 

 may be placed upon shelves, or on the pa- 

 rapet wall of the bark-bed ; but the nearer the 

 glasses the better, particularly the strawberries ; 

 but good early kidney beans may be raised in 

 almost any part of the stove. When any sort of 

 flowers are to be forwarded, such as roses, pinks, 

 &c., or any bulbous flowers, as early as possible, 

 they may be plunged in the bark -bed, and some 

 be placed upon shelves, ScC, to succeed them. 

 See HoT-HoosK. 



The second sort of stove, from its affording a 

 dry heat, is intended principally for the cul- 

 ture of very succulent tender exotics of parched 

 soils, that require to be kept always dry. Where 

 there are large collections of this sort of plants, 

 it is very useful to deposit the most succulent of 

 them in sepa rate stoves, for fear of the others which 

 perspire more freely occasioning a damp air in 

 winter, which may be imbibed by the succu- 

 lents, and injure them, as being impatient of 

 nuich moisture, particularly in that season : in 

 this kind of stove moveable stands or shelves are 

 erected above one another, on which to place 

 the pots of plants ; such as the tenderer sorts of 

 aloes, cereuses, euphorbiums, melon-thistle, 

 and other very tender succulent plants, &c. ; 

 but most of them may be cultivated in a com- 

 mon stove. 



The third sort of stove is sometimes used 

 principally for flowers, as is common about 

 London, to force large quantities of early roses, 

 pinks, and numerous other flowers for market, 

 where they fetch a very great price at an early 

 season : others are intended principally for fruit- 

 trees, and some serve both for forcing flowers 

 and fruits, and several sorts of small plants, as 

 strawberries, kidney beans, &;c. ; so that they 

 consist of two kinds, which are a bark forcing 

 stove, furnished with a bark-bed and flues ; and 

 a fire forcing stove having only flues for lire 

 without any bark-bed : the former of which is 

 constructed like a common bark stove, being 

 furnished with a pit for a bark-bed to receive the 

 pots of particular sorts of plants intended for 

 forcing, in order to forward them as early as 

 possible ; and with flues for tire-heat occasional- 

 ly ; and sometimes it is formed capacious enough 

 in width to admit of a border of earth behmd 

 the bark-bed, next the back wall, serving for 



fruit-trees, to be planted in the full grouiui ; 

 such as cherries, peaches, apricots, hce,, for 

 early forcing : the bark-bed is for receiviug va- 

 rious sorts uf pianis in pots in winter, lor for- 

 cing to maturiiy of growih or production in that 

 season or early in spring ; as pots of roses, 

 pinks, dwarf tulips, hyacinths, narcissuses, 

 honeysuckles, hypericunis, and many other 

 flower plantsof small or moderate growih, both of 

 the shrubby and herbaceous kinds; also any cu- 

 rious tender annual flowers, such as balsaniines, 

 &c., may be forwarded in it; likewise pots oi" 

 strawberries, dwarf cherries, and other small 

 fruits plunged either in the bark-bed, or placed 

 any where towards the glasses ; also pots or boxes 

 of kidney-beans, salading, &c. 



The season to begin forcing in these stoves 

 is principally from about the latter end of De- 

 cember to the end of January, according as the 

 flowers, fruits, ike, may be wanted ; the plants 

 and trees intended for forcing in pots should 

 have been potted ei'her a year before, or in the 

 preceding spring or auuinin, and in winter 

 sheltered from severe frost till the forcing time : 

 it is necessary for the shrub and tree kinds in 

 particular, as if planted or potted the preceding 

 year or before, and they are well rooted and 

 firmly established in the earth, it is of essential 

 advantage; being all previously raised in the 

 open ground, till advanced to a proper growth 

 for flowering and fruiting; and the fruit-trees at 

 the same time, trained in the requisite order : 

 those intended for planting in the internal bor- 

 der of earth behind should be planted fully 

 therein early in autumn, without being potted ; 

 some of which, such as peaches, nectarines, 

 apricots, &c., being trained as wall-trees, others 

 as low standards, particularly cherries; and 

 vines, planted also against the front without- 

 side, have the stems trained in through small 

 holes, and conducted up under the sloping- 

 glasses ; but such plants as are to be raised 

 from seed should not generally be sown till the 

 time the pots are placed in the stove for forcing. 



When the plants, seeds, &c., have been pro- 

 perly arranged in these stoves, they are soon 

 set in motion by the bark -bed heat, and afterward* 

 by making moderate fires on cold nights, and on 

 days occasionally, in very severe weather, to 

 support a constant proper warmth to continue 

 the plants always in moderate growth ; by 

 which means, various flowers and fruits may 

 be obtained two or three months before their 

 natural season in the open air. 



The latter kind, or such stoves as are worked' 



by fire-heat only, arc mostly used for forcing 



fruit-trees, having the whole or most part of the 



bottom space within formed of good rich earth, 



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