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winds, let the covers be of what fort they 

 will ; in wet weather, in treading the fand 

 or gravel into a quagmire ; and in very 

 hard frofts, when the covers cannot be 

 taken off for feveral days: in that time/ 

 perhaps fome hours of fun every day is 

 entirely loft, alfo the expence of time 1 in' 

 covering and uncovering. All thefe things" 

 render it very troublefome. 



I HAVE not ufed a cover for a Pine- 

 ftove thefe thirty years, although I have 

 had^them urider my care part of that time, 

 even in the north of Scotland. There is 

 no difficulty in keeping Pine-ftoves with- 

 out covers where there are no grapes ; but 

 as they are now introduced into almofl: 

 every houfe, it is neceffary to know how' 

 to manage them without being at the' 

 trouble of covering.- 



THERE are few fioves for' Pines but' 

 where the plants {land at four or five feet' 

 from the glafs. Fix iron pins of a foot long' 

 three or four in a rafter, according to the 



breath' 



