IQ2 THE HOT-HOUSE. [Jan. 



crowns and suckers of the year, from the fruit and old plants, 

 to strike and forward them in ready successions for the above 

 occasions. 



Thus by bavins; the different stove departments always furnished 

 with pine plants of three different stages of growth, succeeding one 

 another regularly, i. e. the nursery pit containing the ye irly crowns 

 and suckers, the succession pit the one and two years plants, and 

 the main stove the fruiting plants, a constant succession is thereby 

 annually obtained, for the same individual plants never produce 

 fruit but once; they, however, produce a plentiful supply of crowns 

 and suckers which commence proper plants, attaining a fruiting 

 state in regular succession. 



However, in many places, the situation or convenience not ad- 

 mitting but of one common stove to raise and forward the pines 

 and other exotics in their different stages of growth, at least with 

 probably the assistance only of a small detached bark-pit, or a bark 

 and dung hot-bed under a large garden frame, to strike and nurse 

 the yearling crowns and suckers of the pines, &c. of each year, 

 until they are about a year old, then moved into the stove; where, 

 with the proper requisite culture, are produced not only very good 

 pine-apples, but also many curious exotics, flowers, other fruits, &c. 

 at an early season. 



But having a main stove with two smaller ones adjoining nearly 

 on the same plan as above hinted, you can always, with greater 

 certainty, obtain a regular annual succession of fruiting pines in 

 perfection. 



A private passage or small door, made from the back shed into 

 the hot-house, close to one of the ends, or at any convenient place, 

 will be found extremely useful in severe weather for entering into 

 the house to examine the temperature of the heat, or to do the other 

 necessary work, when it would be ineligible to open the outer doors. 



It would be an eligible way, for persons who have large collec- 

 tions of exotics, to have the green -house in the middle, with a stove 

 and glass case at each end; the stoves to be next the green-house, 

 and the glass cases at the extremities, made exactly in the same 

 manner as the bark stoves, and to range with them. 



These glass cases being furnished with flues, but no bark-pits, 

 are in fact dry stoves; they may be kept of different temperatures 

 jf heat, and ought to be furnished with roof and front coverings of 

 some kind to be used occasionally. The bark stoves may also be 

 kept of different temperatures, so as to suit the various habits of 

 the plants. 



Thus by contriving the green-house in the middle, and a stove 

 and s^lass case at each end, there will be a conveniency For keeping 

 plants from all parts of the world; which cannot be otherwise main- 

 tained in good health, but by placing them in the different degrees 

 of beat, corresponding with that of their native countries. 



The l)r))-stove. 



This stove differs in no wise from the bark-stove, but in not hav- 



