122 The Gardener's Ni-w Director. 



or Pine-apple ftoves, with the culture of that excel- 

 lent fruit: Previous to this it will be requifite to attend 

 to the following particulars ; utio. To give fnch a warmth 

 to the air in the houfe, as to raife Mr, Fowler^s, or Mr. 



Coles''b 



■which is imbibed by the fucculent plants, to their no 

 fmall prejudice. Thefe (loves may be regulated by a 

 thermometer, fo as not to over-heat them, nor to let 

 the plants fuffer by cold ; in order to which, all fuch 

 plants as require nearly the fame degree of heat, fhould 

 be placed by themfelves in a feparate houfe, for if in the 

 fame {tove there are plants placed of many different 

 countries, which require as many different heats, by 

 making the houfe warm enough for feme plants, others 

 by having too much heat, are drawn and fpoiled. 



The other fort of (loves are commonly called bark 

 floves, to diftinguifh them from the dry (loves already 

 mentioned. Thefe have a large pit, nearly the length 

 of the houfe, three feet deep, and fix or feven wide, 

 according to the breadth of the houfe, which pit is fill- 

 ed with tanners' bark to make a hot-bed, and in this bed 

 the pots of the moft tender exotick trees, and herbace- 

 ous plants, are plunged. The heat of this bed being 

 moderate, the roots of the plants are always kept in ac- 

 tion, and the moidure, detained by the bark, keeps the 

 fibres of their roots in a dutlile ftate, which, in a dry 

 flove, where they are placed upon (helves, are fubjed 

 to dry too fad, to the great injury of the plants. In 

 thefe (loves, if they are rightly contrived, may be pre- 

 ferved the m.ofi: tenvlcr exotick trees and plants, which, 

 before the ufe of the bark was introduced, were thought 

 impoffible to be kept in England-, but, as there is fome 

 (kill required in the (Irudure of thefe floves, I fhall 

 not only defcribe them as intelligibly as poffible, 

 but alfo annex plans of them, by which it is hoped 

 every curious perfon will be capable of directing his 

 workmen in their (Irudure. 



The diinenfion of thefe floves fhould be proportioned 

 to the number of plants intended to be preferved, or the 

 particular fancy of the owner ; birt their length fhould 



not 



