’ ticle much lefs underftood, 
has long difgraced.the Study of Medals: 
deliver freely : 
OF GARDENING | 
Resa aig see 
we ein 
Of the Confiruétion of 5 TOVE Se 
HE Conftruétion of the Greenhoufe we have 
given. in the preceding Number: that 
of the. Stove naturally follows.. This is an Ar- 
and confequently 
much worfe practifed than the other. : 
 Thofe who have fucceeded beft. make it a Point 
to keep their Knowledge to themfelves; and from 
this, as well as the referved Turn many have of 
ate taken. who have curious Plants, I fear the 
fame falle Tafte is growing in Botany, that 
this is 
a Defire that none fhould poffefs thofe valued 
Produtions but themfelves. What thefe preferve. 
he who has. 
a true Senfe of the Study will no more keep: 
fecret it is our Purpofe to difclofe: 
fecret any Improvementin it; than the Phyfician 
Honour a new Remedy. 
- Whatever we have obferved that is ufefal i in 
this great Article of curious Gardening, we fhall 
the Reader has a general Idea of 
the Stove already from what we have {aid treating 
of the Pine-apple and fome other Kinds: and we 
hete propofe their feveral Conftructions ; which 
that will lead him the more readily to underftand. 
Plants may be arranged in. refpect of their 
- Hfardinefs under three general Kinds, 1: Thofe 
which bear the open Air in our Climate all the 
Year. 2. Thofe which require Shelter in Win- 
ter, but ufually no artificial Heat; and 3. Thofe 
_ that require Shelter and. artificial Heat. The 
firft are the hardy, the: fecond the Green- 
houfe; and the third the: Stove. Plants. Each 
Clafs is again fubject to many Subdivifions, 
for the Degrees of Tendernefs are innumerable. 
This we have fhewn in the other Kinds, 
and we now come to examine it practically 
in regard of thofe called Stove Plants, from 
the abfolute Neceflity there is of artificial Heat 
to keep them in this Climate. | 
Thefe, acccording to their Nature and ori- 
ginal Climate, require various Degrees of that 
Heat, but all of them a Temperature of the 
Air, which, cannot be maintained otherwife 
than by this Affiftance of actual Fire. 
_ For all thefe Stoves are to be erected, and there 
FOCI ROC HIIEKOROF IIHF IIT IT HIT RII IIIT | 
: {truction of Stoves. . 
Tan in the Centre. 
through fome Shed, 
Paae ialte Boleparened wie Glafs, and affifted, 
in the fame Manner forthe raifingofthem. One 
Stoves, and it will be better that the feparated 
Degrees of Heat, neceffary for diftin& Sets of- 
fame Building, than in diftiné Eddifices. 
“This gives the general Idea of the Con- 
eve are to be Buildings; 
or rather there is to be a Building glazed in 
- Building may anfwer the Purpofe of thefe feveral | 
Plants, fhould be kept up in Divifions of the — 
Front, and expofed to the South in the Man- | 
ner of the Greenhoufe : 
alfo at the Top, and it muft have Fire-places 
and Flues in the back Wall. It mutt be divided 
crofswife into feveral Rooms by Glafs Partitions, 
in‘each of which there may be preferved a certain 
Supply of the other Parts. 
This is the general Idea of the Building, in 
which the Blaties being potted with the Compofts 
proper for each Kind, are to be placed either 
‘upon a Stand in the open Room, or in a Pit of 
‘This makes the Diftinction — 
between the Dry-Stove arid the Bark-Stove : in each 
the Heat is to be regulated by a Thermometer, 
hung up at a Diftance from the Fire Place 
in every Divifion; -and. the Entrance muft be 
or out of a Greenhoufe, 
that the cold Air may not rufh in on open- 
ing the Door. 
The Top mutt be occafionally covered to keep 
out Wet, and fometimes to defend the Plants 
from the too powerful Sun ; and for this Purpofe 
there muft either be moveable Shutters, or the . 
Contrivance of a coarfe Canvafs to let down or 
draw up occafionally. 
‘ut it as to he glazed | 
/ proportioned Degree of Heat; and at its Ends - 
muft be placed thor glazed Beds, which may — 
_be confidered as a Kind’ of {mall gaehes for the 
The Plants will thus live in an Air fuited to | 
that of their natural Climate; and they muft be 
refrefhed with Water at Times. , 
He who comprehends thus much of the gene- 
ral Nature and Ufe of a Stove, will city enter 
into the Conftruction. | 
< @ AAR. ao. 
Of the BAR K- STOVE. 
Hoever has his Choice of the two Kinds | 
_ of Stove, will be eafily brought to prefer 
that with Bark to the dry, from the Confideration 
of their natural Difference. 
in the dry Heat, which is altogether unnatural to 
Plants; they may bear an equal Degree in their 
native Climate, becaufe there they have full 
Ground for the Roots to fpread themfelves, 
There is a Harfhnefs © 
being circum{cribed within the very narrow 
Limits of a Pot; and the extreme Fibres foon - 
dry. The Subftance of the Pot quickly ac- 
quires too much Fleat, and the Mould becomes 
dry and parched about the Bottom and Sides 
where the tender Fibres run. On the contrary, 
when the Bark Stove is ufed, the Pots are con-— 
ftantly kept in it; and as there never fails to be » 
but with us they have the Difadyantage of | Moifture there, the Sides of the Pots will not be 
dry, 
