4 IS Hot-house, combining a Pinery, Vinery, SfC, 



Art. XIII. Description of a Hot-house, combining a Pinerit/t 

 Vinery, Succession Pit, and Winter Green-house, all heated by 

 one Fire, By Abraham Caldicott, Esq. F.H.S. 



Sir, 

 I ENCLOSE you the plan of a combined pinery, vinery, and 

 succession pit, which I have tried for several years, and found 

 to ansvi^er remarkably well : and when it is considered that 



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the vinery [Jig. 85. a) serves also as a winter green-house, and 

 that one fire suffices for the whole, I will venture to say that 

 by no other plan can the same quantity of fruit be obtained, 

 and the same number of objects effected, by one single fire, 

 and, consequently, at so little expense. 



The pinery (b) is ventilated in the early part of the year 

 by the air from the vinery (a), in order that the rawness of 

 the air may be qualified in the vinery before it reaches the 

 pines ; consequently, a freer circulation may be admitted, than 



