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The new method of burning lime in stove fire- 

 places may also be considered as an acquisition on 

 the score of improvement. These practices I have 

 endeavoured fully to elucidate and further to 

 explain by plates. 



There have also been many new and valuable 

 kinds of the Pine-apple plant introduced [into the 

 Pine-stoves in this country from various parts of 

 the globe. In this work a description of these 

 may be considered as a necessary piece of inform- 

 ation : but I have deemed it proper only to describe 

 such kinds as have come within my own immediate 

 knowledge, and that are actually cultivated in the 

 Pine-stoves in Welbeck garden. 



I must beg leave to present my most grateful 

 acknowledgments to my very excellent, worthy, 

 and learned friend Dr. A. Hunter : his kind assist- 

 ance and friendly attention to this work during the 

 time it was in the press, has greatly contributed 

 towards rendering it more worthy of the public 

 approbation. 



W. SPEECHLY. 



Welbeck, January L 1796. 



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