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 at work, as well as the ftoves, where thdre are much 

 fruit. The expence of erefting fuch a frame, or fmaU 

 {love, will be about fixteen pounds, and the annual 

 charge three. In thefe frames you may ripen thre<? 

 dozen of truit every year. 



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ftafon, when the glafTes are clofely fliut, which often 

 proves very injurious to the plants. 3. There is danger 

 of the tan taking fire, where there is not great care 

 taken that it doth not lie near the flues; fo that although 

 the fmall iloves here propofed require more expence m 

 the building, yet, being greatly preferable to thofe pits, 

 and the after-expence being the fame, they will be found 

 ■fo much more convenient, as to render them more ge- 

 neral, where the fruit is cultivated. 



Where there is no danger of the wet fettling about 

 the tan in winter, the bark-pit may be funk two feet 

 deep in the ground, and raifed one foot above the fur- 

 face ; the only walk which is neceflary in thefe ftoves, 

 is that on the back of the tan-bed, which may be on a 

 level with the furface of the ground, fo that the tan-bed 

 Will be more than one foot abpve the walk, and the 

 fines beginning from the level of the walk, there will be 

 room to return them three times; which will warm the 

 air much more, with the fame fire, than when they are 

 carried but twice the length of the fiove. 



But in wet land, the tan-bed fhould be wholly raifed 

 above the level of the ground, in order to preferve thf; 

 Ian from being chilled by moiirure; and in fuch places 

 the walk on the back fhould be raifed near two feet 

 above the level of the ground ; becaufe the tan-bed 

 fhould rot rife much more, than one foot above the 

 walk; for if it is higher, it will be more difficult to 

 reach the plants when they require water ; the brick 

 wall of the pit, on the fide next the walk, need not 

 he more than four inches thick, fo far as rifes above 

 the walk ; but below that, it fhould be nine inches thick. 

 The reafon for reducing the wall above, is to gain room 

 for the xvalk, which would otherwife be too much 

 contra6ted ; and if there is a kirb of oak laid on th.e top 



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