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BARK-BED AND FIRE-HEAT. 



of warmth, that will keep the house in a proper 

 temperature until morning : this will be more 

 especially necessary in the fruiting- house, to 

 forward the plants for fruiting ; but fire-heat is 

 also necessary, as the weather may require, in 

 the succession departments; also in hard, frosty, 

 and severe cutting weather, the house will re- 

 quire the assistance of fire-heat all day ; but be 

 sure not to heat the house immoderately, to force 

 pines to an improper growth, but keep the hear 

 as regular as possible. 



About January and February the heat may 

 be triflingly increased in the fruiting-house, to 

 forward plants for fruiting, as at this season the 

 pines generally begin to show and set their 

 fruit, at which time they require a lively bottom 

 heat, and a more general {but mark) yet mode- 

 rate degree of fire-heat. 



The fires may be kept supported till eight, 

 nine, or ten o'clock at night, during the winter, 

 and in severe weather cover the last fire over 

 with ashes, that it may continue to cause a mo- 

 derate heat the greater part of the night, and 

 also in severe weather the fires should be at- 



