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feet wide, and 12 feet high. One half of the stage 

 is appropriated to suckers, the other half to year-old 

 plants. It is capable of containing 30 year-old 

 plants and 36 suckers. The suckers strike root more 

 quickly on this plan than in hark. (Gard. Chron. 

 1843, 139). 



At Thornfield, the stove in which Mr. Hamilton 

 grows pines is also heated by means of hot water pipes. 

 The wall is nine inches thick all round ; the height 

 of the back wall seven feet six inches, (from the trellis 

 which lies close above the pipes,) to the glass. The 

 wall at the ends and front is 18 inches above the 

 pipes, at the top of the back wall. Under every light 

 is a wooden shutter, nearly the width of the lights, 

 and 10 inches deep, to admit air. These are opened 

 from the outside. The length of the house inside is 

 28 feet, by 11 feet wide. The alley, which goes all 

 round the house, and in which the pipes are placed, 

 is 21 inches wide. The tan bed, which is surrounded 

 by a nine inch wall, is 23 feet long by seven feet 

 three inches wide ; 3 feet deep at the back, and 20 

 inches at the front. Both ends of the house are glass. 

 There are also twenty inch lights at the front, which 

 are made to open, for the convenience of the operators. 

 The whole roof is covered with nine entire and fixed 

 lights, (no north lights,) and the laps of the glass are 

 filled with putty. The pitch is four feet. The boiler 

 is a half cylinder, and is fixed in the back shed, about 



