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oven is to be laid a large caft-iron plate, over which you 

 may raife a brick arch, covered w ith (onie broad tiles, 

 two feet every way, cemented together with good mor- 

 tar, and lome pan-cratch laid on the tiles, whereupon 



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in loam of the fame kind as that the bricks are made 

 with, and this, when burnt by fire, will cement the 

 whole together, and become like one brick, but you 

 lliould be very careful, where-ever the fire is placed, 

 that it be not too near the bark-bed ; for the heat 

 of the fire will, by its long continuance, dry the bark, 

 fo that it will lofe its virtue, and be in danger of tak- 

 ing fire ; to prevent which, it will be the befl: me- 

 thod to continue a hollow between t',"' brick-work of 

 the fire and that of the pit, about eight inches wide, 

 which will eflfeflually prevent any damage arifing from 

 the heat of the fire; nor fhould there be any wood- 

 work placed near the flues, or the fire-place, becaufe 

 the continual heat of the ftove may, in time, dry it fo 

 much, as to caufc it to take fire, which ought to be ve- 

 ry carefully guarded againfl:. 



The entrance into this flove (liould be either from 

 a green houfe, the dry ftove, or elfe through the flied 

 where the fire is made, becaufe in cold weather the 

 front glafles muft not be opened. The infide of the 

 houfe fliould be clean white-wafhed, becaufe the whiter 

 the back part of the houfe is, the better it will refle61: 

 the light, which is of great confequence to plants, e- 

 fpecially in winter, when the flove is obliged to be 

 fluit up clofe. 



Over the top Aiding glalTis there fhould be either 

 wooden fhutters, or tarpavvlins fixed in frames, to co- 

 ver them in bad weatlitr, to prevent the wet from 

 getting through the glafles, and to fecure them from 

 being broken by ftorms and hail, and thefe outer co- 

 verings will be very ferviceable to keep out the froft, 

 and if in very fevere cold there is a tarpawlin hung be- 

 fore the upright glafles in the front, it will be of great 

 fervicc to the ftove, and much lefs fire will prefeive a 

 heat in tl.e houfe. 



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