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rpace of the houfe muft be formed the pit for 

 the bark bed, in dimenfions as above, gene- 

 rally not finking the bottom but little, or not 

 more than a foot below the floor of the houfe, 

 efpecially if a wet bottom, raiiing it two or 

 three feet above by means of a furrounding 

 parapet wall carried up quite from the bottom, 

 fo that in the whole, the pit will be three feet 

 or three feet and a half deep, having the bot- 

 tom of the pit paved with brick, the floor of 

 the houfe with the fame, or broad fquare tiles, 

 and let all the wood work be well painted 

 white in oil colour, both without and within. 



The bark bed of the hot houfe pit fhonld 

 generally be nude in the Autumn, to fupporc 

 3 good heat all Wfnter. 



Befides the above general bark ftoves, it is 

 eligibk to have one or two fmallerones, ferv- 

 ing as a nurfery pit and fuccelfion apart- 

 ments, for raifing the young pines in par- 

 ticular, of a proper age and fize for fruiting, 

 then removed in fucceflional order into the^ 

 main hot houfe. 



One of thefe appurtenances to the maia 

 ftove may be fmaller than the other, and built 

 all round intirely with brick work five or fix 

 feet high behind, by four or five in the front, 

 with Hoping glafles at top, and have a flue 

 for fire- heat carried round the upper part 

 within ; and this pit being filled with bark 

 for a hot-bed, in which to plunge the pots of 

 plants and warm the inclofed air, ferves to 

 raife and contain the young Pine plants, &c, 

 the firft year, and is generally called Amply 

 the Pit or Bark pit. 



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