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bed, both to affift in warming the internal air 

 Xi^ore efi"e«Stually, and in its kindly, mode- 

 rately moiil degree, is iuitable to many of th« 

 more delicate exotics, and in which to plunge 

 the pots of various tender kinds, fuch as the 

 Pine-apple, which in particular will not fuc« 

 ceed, unleis the plants are conllantly retained 

 in the bark-bed to have the advantage of that 

 icindly moill, regular, durable heat about theif 

 roots, as is peculiar to this kind of hoc-beds. 



The other kind of hot houfes, generally de- 

 nominated a dry Hove, being furnilhed with 

 flues for fire heat only, and no pic for a bark 

 bed, and is allotted principally for the lefs 

 tejjder ilove-exotics, and many of the fuccu- 

 lent kinds, which being full of moiilure, fuc- 

 ceetl rather preferably in a dry than moift 

 heat, the pots of plants being placed upon 

 ihelves or flands. 



The eredion of the diiFerent floves may 

 either be in the Pleafure ground, Kitchen 

 garden, Nurfery ground, &c. as convenient, 

 generally in a fomewhat elevated fituation out 

 of the wet, and where the full fun has free 

 accefs the whole day, from riiing to fetting if 

 poflihie. 



All hot houfes, Sec. (hould range longways, 

 nearly eall and well, with the front full to the 

 fouth, having a brick or ftone-work back wall ~ 

 ten or twelve feet high, or more, and only 

 eighteen inches to two feet and a half high 

 in the front and at both ends, upon which 

 to have upright glafs work in moveable Hiding 

 fafhes, and with a floping top alfo of glafs fafhes 

 to ilide up and down, and a brick work flue 



