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THE MOIST STOVE. 



vated. For example, palms, musas, &c., require houses of the greatest 

 altitude to enable them to develope their fronds and leaves to their fullest 

 extent. 



A very good stove for the culture of such plants as require with a high 

 temperature a corresponding degree of humidity, or indeed for general 

 purposes, may be of any required length, and ten or twelve feet high at 

 the back, and from from twelve to sixteen feet in width. Such a house 

 should have a bed or platform in the middle, as at «, a walk, h all 

 round, three feet in breadth, and the flues, c, in front, and d f dX the 

 back, over v^hich a trellised platform should be placed for the reception of 

 plants, both over the front and topmost back flue also. If hot water or 

 steam pipes be used in preference to smoke flues, they should of course 

 occupy the same places marked as flues in the section. A neat trellised 



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arch may be placed under every other rafter over the front footpath, and 

 these joined with other arches of a single half-inch rod of iron, to which 

 the most delicate chmbing plants may be trained. The stronger growing 

 kinds to be planted in large pots plunged in the bed, and trained to upright 

 rods of iron under every rafter, both for support and ornament. Over 

 the back flues should be placed three courses of shelves for the reception 

 of plants while in a dormant state, and which require to be kept dry, 

 such as Gloxinia^ Gesneria, &c. Such a house a this, forty feet long, 

 may be heated by one fire, either by a common smoke flue or hot-water 

 boiler and pipes ; but as the additional expense in the first instance 

 will not be much, it will be better to have two furnaces, the second 

 to be considered merely as supplementary, and to be used only in case 



