^32 The Gardener*s New Director. 



4^ff, Not any crofs-bars are to be ufed in the glafs-frames, 

 as ihcy interrupt the fleam or water colie<Eted in the 

 {love from running off the infide of the gkfs roof, fo 



that 



in attending the fire in the night, which fhould be avoid- 

 ed as much as poflible ; becaufe whenever the trouble is 

 made very great or difficult, and the perfon, who is in- 

 truded v.'ith the care of it, has not a very great affefti- 

 on for the thing, and is withal not very careful, there 

 will be great hazard of the fire being neglected, which 

 in a little time may be of dangerous confequence to the 

 plants ; but, if the fuel intended be turf, then the con- 

 trivance of the furnace may be the fame as for the bark- 

 ftove already mentioned. The f^ues of this flove, if they 

 fire carried under the pavement, may be turned after the 

 manner of Fig. I. in the plate, which will caufe them 

 to draw better than if flrait, and by this method of dif- 

 pofing them, they may be fo much turned as to reach 

 irom the back to the front of the houfe. 



The depth of them ihould not be lefs than eighteen 

 inches, and the width nearly equal, which will pre- 

 vent their being choaked up with foot, as is often the 

 cafe when the flues are made too fmall. The fpaces 

 between the flues fhould be filled up either with dry 

 brick rubbifh, lim.e, or fand, from which there will 

 little moifture arife, and the flues fhould be clofely plai- 

 llered with loam, both within and without, and the up- 

 per part of them covered with a coarfe cloth under the 

 floor, to prevent the fmoke from getting into the houfe. 



When the flue is carried from the furnace to the 

 end of the houfe, it may be returned in the back a- 

 bove the floor twice in ilrait lines, which may be con- 

 trived to appear like a flep or two, by which means 

 the fmoke will be continued in the houfe until all its 

 heat is fpent, which will confequently warm the air 

 of the houfe the better, and the chimneys, through 

 which the fmoke is to pafs off, may be either at both 

 ends or in the middle, carried up in the thicknefs of 

 the brick work of the flues, fo us not to appear in 



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