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THE HUMID OR MOIST STOVE. 



In the construction of a stove of this description, which we may here 

 obser\"e is by far the most common in use, much depends on the taste 

 and object of the owner, the kind of collection that he intends to culti- 

 vate, and whether he is ambitious of possessing specimens of extraordinary 

 magnitude, or is content with small-growing and free-flowering kinds. 

 We have hitherto in these brief observations recommended rather low 

 houses, as being best calculated for the growth of fine-flowering plants 

 that are not intended to be allowed to attain a very large size : however, 

 the case materially differs when specimens of large growth are more desir- 

 able, and lofty and extensive structures must be formed for them ; and, 



therefore, in this, as in all similar cases, the size, particulariy the light 

 ought to be regulated by the description of plants intended to be culti 



