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ther encrease. It would doubtless be deemed 

 folly, should I lose time in directing how these 

 fires are to be made, as I never knew any who 

 had the least pretensions to gardening inca- 

 pable of it ; I shall therefore be silent on that 

 head. However, it may not be amiss to re- 

 mark, that a slow, steady, regular fire, will be 

 much more advantageous, than violent irregu- 

 lar ones would be. Thus far has coals, or turf, 

 the advantage of sticks ; but even these may be 

 made too strong ; the consequence of which, is 

 not unfrequently setting fire to the soot in the 

 flues, and thereby overheating the air in the 

 house ; to remedy which, should it at any time 

 happen, cold water should be poured on the 

 flues in great quantities, and a little air given 

 at the top of the house, if imperiously required, 

 and the weather permits : this will soon reduce 

 the air to its proper state. The Thermometer 

 will then be the best guide, when to shut up 

 the house, and when the fire will be again ne- 

 cessary. 



Although a circulation of fresh air is at all 

 times requisite to the health of plants, yet the 

 heat of the external atmosphere will at this 

 season, be so much diminished, that it will not 



