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Garden are all arranged in the way which Mr. Miller 

 describes in his Gardeners' Dictionary, under the word 

 Stoves, viz. : that the smoke comes to pass through 

 several bends backwards and forwards in one of the long 

 walls of the orangery. In the largest orangery in Chelsea 

 garden the smoke makes six bends, before it escapes. 

 Mr. Miller said that he had at first [T. I. p. 399] had 

 them made like channels under the floor at the sides of 

 the house, but he had since altered this in the above 

 named way, because he had not found that a good plan. 

 For from the great heat, the tan, garfVare Barken, 

 that lay nearest these flues, Canaler, grew so hot, that 

 it became quite dry, and the danger was that it would 

 take fire. He knew two, if not more, examples in which 

 orangeries here in England had been burnt by the tan 

 becoming so hot that it took fire. Coal was burned in 

 the ovens here in the winter, commonly once in the twenty- 

 four hours, viz. : every evening, but if the day is cloudy 

 a small fire is also lighted in the morning. Mr. Miller 

 considered coal the best thing to use for this purpose 

 because they burn so evenly. Peats (Torf) he considered 

 to be equally good with coal in this respect ; but they have 

 the disadvantage that the smell of them passes through the 

 wall into the house, so that it smells strong in the 

 orangery, which does not happen with Coals. Mr. Miller 

 said that he had at first used Peat, but left it off for the 

 reason first named. Wood, he believed not to be so good 

 for fuel as coal and peat, because it heats too quickly and 

 strongly. The tan which had lain for a time in the 

 orangery around the pots, krukorna, was afterwards 

 used in the garden as ordinary manure. On the mould 

 in the pots in the orangery nothing was laid, neither 

 sawdust nor anything else. In Moscow I have seen saw- 

 dust laid on the mould in the pots in orangeries, to 

 keep them moist longer. 



