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the rooms covered wees vitem in — to keep ow —- out, which will make a 
perpetual spring and s with a ant succession of pure warm air. W 
a scene is here opened for | dini some: in асаа мена [^ 
It is probable that the building referred to was the large hothouse, 
110 feet long, which, according to the privately printed “ Records of 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew," by the late John Smith, A.L.S. 
(p. ix)— 
“ was erected [in 1761] by Sir Wm. Chambers, then Royal architect, being at that 
time the largest hothouse in this country, and in after years known as the Great 
Stove 
It stood not far from the Temple of the Sun, and was taken down in 
1861; the old Wistaria sinensis, which is coiled on a circular frame 
was trained on its brickwork. Gosse gives a view of it (Wanderings, 
p. 205). 
Chambers gives the following account (p. 3) of this stove in the 
description which he published in 1763 (at the expense of the Princess 
е of the buildings and gardens at Kew :— 
The Physic or Exotic Garden was not begun before the year 1760; so that it 
cannot possibly be yet in its perfection ; but from the great botanical learning. of 
him whois the sido manager [no doubt Lord Bute], a = the assiduity with 
which all curious productions are collected from every part of the — — Pere 
any re expense, it may Fin grip" that in a few years, this the 
amplest and best collection of curious plants in Europe. For the ibn cr of 
those plants I have built several stoves ; € amongst others a ed large one, of 
which uem are Aes plans, elevations, and sections in the seventh plate. ts extent 
from eas sea hundred and аный foot; the dier is occupied by 
a a te foot ong. 
* E. * 
“The back-stove in the € is heated = pass — two of these serve to 
warm the flues under the pavement, and t warm those in the back wall, of 
тр there аге zie revoluti oes "The flues is val of them 9 inches wide and two 
foot high. Those in the эче vam are divided from the house by a brick-on-edge 
wall, and se d p m each o y foot-tiles. Between some of them are placed 
air pipes for the introduction of "fro h air, which dac t means is warmed in its 
passage, and ce ms very xe to the plants 
* * 
* On the outside of e back-stove, in front, there is a border covered with glass 
for bulbous roots, which by the assistance of the flues under the pavement of the 
_ Stove flourish very Mire in the year. 
The method described of, growing Cape bulbs in at — is un- 
doubtedly the best. Smith (Records, pp. 312, 313) say 
* The garden eene of bulbs were grown in glazed frames, ealled the bulb 
borders, attached e fronts of the Botany Bay, omen and Palm Houses, the 
length of the we ae 234 feet, width 5 pag They ived heat fr ey gol eim 
that heated the house, through openings left in de be briokw ork, an 
winters eee were protected by тутун ge these eee the Зара. of "Niven' s 
Монк and Bow collections well maintained for man 
u consequence of the alisrations and асам, in a garden which followed the 
appointment of Sir W. Hooker as Director, these houses and were removed.” 
_ The system has since been reverted to. 
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EARL ог Burr. 
. developing the otiosi side at Kow? Fèk ee ri howd oF Veh 
_ bedchamber to the Prince с i me groo 
_ the stole. to his s`son, afterwards George III. Dad II. died in 1760, 
