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mentation from whence the heat proceeds; befides, 

 there is not the lead occafion for this flue, as thofe in 

 the rear are fufficient to warm the air above the tan- 

 pits, which is all that is required. 2</o, Obl'crve that 



the 



Mimofa, or Senfitive Plants, 



"Nickar Tree, or Bonduc, 



Palm Trees of feveral forts, 



Papaw Tree, 



Plantane Tree, 



Plum Tree oijamaicay 



Hog Plum, 



Sapotilla Tree, 



Santa Maria, 



Sour Sop, 



Sugar Apple, 



Sweet Sop, 



Tamarind Tree, 



Tulip Flower, or Whitewood. 



Thefe, with mufl: other forts of trees, ftirubs, anU 

 herbaceous plants, which are natives of very warm 

 countries, fhould be plunged in the bark-bed for the 

 reafons already afTigncd, and over the flues may be a 

 conveniency made to ftt the Melon-thiftle, the tender 

 forts of Cereufes, and Euphorbiums, with other very 

 tender fucculent plants, which require to be kept dry in 

 winter. 



As in this ftove are placed the plants of the hottef!; 

 parts of the Eiijl and Well-Indies ; the heat fhould bp. 

 kept up equal to that marked Ananu upon the botanical 

 thermometers, and lliould never be fuffered to be above 

 eight or ten degrees cooler at mofl:, nor fhould the fpirit 

 be raifed above ten d.grees higher in the thermometer 

 during the win'er feafon, both which extremes will be 

 equally injurious ta the plants. 



But in order to judge more exa6tly of the temper of 



the air in the ftove, the thermometer fliouKi be hung at 



a good diftance from the fire, and the tubclhould not be 



cxpofcd to the fun, but, on tne contrary, as much in 



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