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trained some old vines, in the manner of peach-tree riders: 

 they arc tall and cover much space, but this year they pro- 

 mise few grapes. 



The hot-houses are extensive, and have evidently been 

 erected at different times. They consist of a lofty old 

 central green-house for tall plants, with an ordinary green- 

 house and a dry-stove on the right ; and other two houses 

 on the left, calculated for the more tender kinds of 

 plants *. Each of the divisions is furnished both with a 

 thermometer and a barometer. Few of the plants now re- 

 mained within doors, almost all having been set abroad for 

 the summer months. Even the dry-stove was empty, and the 

 succulent tribes were fully exposed to the air : by this sort 

 of treatment, many species of the Aloe and Cactus are here 

 induced occasionally to put forth their flowers, while in Eng- 

 land, where they are kept constantly under cover, these 

 seldom or never appear. Two specimens of the American 

 Aloe (Agave Americana) are large, and may probably 

 flower in a few years. Four specimens of the Jamaica 

 pepper-tree (Myrtus Pimenta), however, continued under 



* Ground- Plan Sketch of the Hot- Houses in the Botanic 

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