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one foot is to be funk under the furface, and the other two 

 above-it. Others have thefe beds with a brick wall at the 

 back, in which there are three flues and a furnace be- 

 low, to warm the air in winter ; and here they nurfe the 

 young crowns, and youngeft ofF-fets in winter, laying 



over 



one at each end, otherwife the air of the houfe cannot 

 be kept in a proper temperature of heat. The quan- 

 tity of fuel which will be wanting for a flove of thir- 

 ty-fix feet long in the clear, is about three chaldron and 

 a half of coals, or in fuch proportion for any other fort 

 cf fuel ; when coals can be had reafonable, it is the heCt 

 kind of fuel ; arud the pit or Scotch coal is preferable to 

 the NcvucaJIle coal, becaufe the latter is very fubje6l to 

 melt or run into clinkers, when the oven is very hot, 

 which the pit-coal never does, but alv/ays burns away 

 ■with a white afh, making but little foot; fo that the 

 flues will not require to be fo ofien cleaned, as when 

 the other coal is ufed. The next befl: fuel for ftoves is 

 peat, where it can be procured good, but the fcent of 

 this fuel is difagreeable to many people. There are 

 forne perfons who burn wood in their ftoves, but this 

 fuel requires much greater attendance than any other, 

 therefore is not very proper for this purpofe ; but in the 

 building of the ftoves, the ovens muft be contrived for 

 the fort of fuel, which is to be ufed in them ; but thefe 

 will be afterward defcribed, and the places where they 

 fhould be fituated, are delinealed in the plan. 



The ftoves defigned for ripening the fruit of the Ana- 

 nas, ftiould have upright glaffes in their front, which 

 fhould be high enough to admit a perfon to walk up- 

 right under them on the walk in the front of the houfe; 

 r.r, where this cannot be adrhitted, the front walk may 

 be funk one foot lower than that on the back of the tan- 

 bed, fo that the furface of the bed will be a foot above 

 the walk, which will be rather an advantage, as the ^ 

 plants will be fo much nearer the glafs; and a perfon 

 may, with great eafe, water and attend the plants, when 

 they are thus raifed above the walk; therefore, when 

 a Ivove is fo fituated, as that the raifing of it high above 

 ground, might be attended with inconvenience, the 



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