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And a hot houfe is alfo of great ufe in af- 

 fifting to raife feveral forts of tender feeds in 

 pots plunged in the bark-bed, as likewife to 

 llrike cuttings and layers expeditioufly in the 

 bark-bed, of many forts of curious trees, 

 fhrubs, and herbaceous plants, and fucculent 

 kinds, both hardy kinds occafionally of 

 the open ground, and of the green houfe, 

 as well z$ thofe of the hot houfe, the cuttings, 

 &c. being planted in pots, and plunged in the 

 bark-bed of the hot houfe, they will quickly 

 ftrike root; and is particularly eligible either 

 for ftriklng cuttings, &c. of any particular 

 forts as fucceed with difficulty in the natural 

 earth, or others that may be required to be 

 (truck and run off as expeditioufly as poffible ; 

 as likewife feeds of many tender or other par- 

 ticular forts of exotic plants being fowed in 

 pots, and plunged in the bark-bed, will grow 

 freely, which in many kinds would not vege- 

 tate at all in this country without that affijt- 

 ance. 



The hot houfe plants that require to have 

 conftant protedion of that prefervatory, con- 

 fill of a great variety both of the tree, Ihrub, 

 herbaceous, and fucculent tribes, bulbous- 

 rooted kinds, Arc. all or moft of which will 

 fucceed in a common pine apple hot houfe, as 

 the heat requifite for the pines, is applicable 

 to moft other tender exotics of the torrid 

 zone : though for full colle6lions of plants, 

 ftoves of different con ftrudion 8 and dimenfions 

 are occafionally allotted to particular forts. 



The plants in general of ihe hot houfe mnfl 



be kept in pots, and continued conftantly in 



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