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There are fome who fet thofe p'ants in glized 

 frames, made three feet high at the back, floping to 

 one and a half in front, and fix feet wide, with which 

 they cover a tan-pit of three feet deep, built on all fides 

 with a flone wall, and paved at bottom, oblerving that 



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fmall fruit are always better flavoured than the large; 

 but from long experience I can allert, that the larger 

 and better nourilhed tHis fruit i?, the higher will be its 

 flavour, fuppofing the forts are the fame ; therefore eve- 

 ry perfon, wiip cultivates this truit, fhould endeavour 

 to have it improved to the greateft perte£fion ; in order 

 to which it will be proper to liave a fmall flove, in which 

 the young plants may be placed, to bring them forward 

 for fruiting ; and the following autumn they fliould be 

 removed into the larger ftove for ripening: — But I fhalj 

 return to the defcription of the larger ftove. The length 

 of this mull: be proportionable to the quantity of fruit 

 (iefired in one feafon ; for as to their width, that fliould 

 not be much varied ; the tan- bed fhould never he nar- 

 rower than fix, nor Ihould it be more than feven feet 

 wide ; for, when it is more, there will be difficulty in 

 reaching thofe plants v.'hich are in the middle of the bed, 

 to water or clean them, and it there is roi^m enough on 

 each fide of the bed for a walk, a foot and a half broad, 

 it will be fufKcient for pcrfons to water and do every 

 thing which is ncceflary to the plants; and as thefe 

 places are not defigned for walking in, fo it is to no pur- 

 pofe to have broad walks, whicli will take up too much 

 fpace ; and the fires mvill be larger, in proporiion to tlie 

 fpace of the houfe; othcrwifc tlie air cannot be lapt in 

 a proper temperature ol warmth. If the il;ove is made 

 thirty-fix feet long in the clear, then the tanbed iiiay 

 be made thirty-three feet long, and a walk left at eacll 

 end a foot and a half wide; which will be fnfllcient tn 

 walk round the bed, to v.'ater and attend the plants; and 

 fuch a tan-bed will contain eighty fruiting plants very 

 well, ir the bed is feven feet wuie ; and this flove may 

 be very well warmed with one fire ; but if the ilnvf: is 

 pjuch Ir.rccr, there mud be tv.u iir'-plac<s. contrived, 



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