ef Fruit propofed to ripen annually. Feet wide; and if there is room 

 The Aril Sort of Stove is that enough on each Side of the Bed for 

 which is defign'd for the Plants a Walk a Foot, or at moll a Foot 

 which produce the Fruit the fame and an half, broad, it will be fuffici- 

 Year ; for as the Plants do not ge- ent for Perfons to water and do every 

 nerally fruit until the fecond Year thing which is necelTary to the 

 from their being taken from the old Plants : and as thefe Places are not 

 Plants, whether they are Suckers defign'd tor walking in, it is to no 

 from the Side of the Plants, or Purpofe to have broad Walks, which 

 Crowns taken from theFruit; if they vviJl take up too much Space ; and 

 fruit the fucceeding Year, the Fruit the Fires mud be larger, in propor- 

 will be fmall ; therefore when they tion to the Space of theHoufe; other- 

 are properly managed, they wili not wife the Air cannot be kept in a 

 produce their Fruit until the fecond proper Temperature of Warmth. 

 Year; by which time they will have If the Stove is made thirty-fix Feet 

 obtained Strength to produce large long in the Clear, then the Tan- 

 Fruit, in which their greateft Value bed may be thirty - three Feet 

 confifts : for altho 1 there are feveral long, and a Walk left at each End a 

 Varieties of this Fruit, which differ Foot and an half wide ; which will 

 in Degrees of Goodnefk, as in moft be fufficient to walk round the Bed 

 ether Fruits ; yet they may all of to water and attend the Plants ; and 

 them be improved in the Size, with- fuchaTan bed will contain an hund- 

 cut diminishing of their Excellence red Fruiting-plants very well, if the 

 in Tafte ; tho' I know there are Bed is feven Feet wide; and this 

 fome Perfons of a contrary Opinion, Stove may be very well warmed 

 2nd who believe, that the fmall Fruit with one Fire ; but if the Stove is 

 are always better flavoured than the built n.uch larger, there mult be two 

 large ; but from long Experience I Fire places contrived, one at each 

 can aiTert, that the larger and better End j otherwife the Air of theHoufe 

 nourim a this Fruit is, the higher will cannot be kept in a properTempera- 

 be its Flavour, fuppofing the Sorts ture cf Heat. The Quantity of 

 are the fame; therefore every Perion Fuel which will be wanting for a 

 who cultivates thi> Fruit, mould en- Stove of rhirty-fix Feet long in the 

 ceavour to have it improved to the Clear, is about three Chaldron and 

 greateft Perfection ; in order to an half of Coals, or in fuch propor- 

 tvhich, it will be proper to have a tion for any other Sort of Fuel, 

 fmall Stove, in which the young where Coals can be had rea.ona- 

 Plants may be placed to bring them My : it is the belt Kind of Fuel ; 

 forward for fruit ng ; and afterward and the Pit or Scotch Coal is prefer- 

 they mould b« removed into the able to the N&wct-flk Coal, becaufe 

 larger Stove for ripening : but I (hall the latter is very fubjett to meit, or 

 return to the Defcripcion of the run into Clinkers, when the Oven is 

 larger Stove. The Length of this very hot \ which the Pit-coa! never 

 muft be proportionable to the Quan- does, but always burns away with a 

 tity of Fruit defired in one Seafon ; white Am, making but little Soot : 

 for, as to their Width, that mould fo that the Flues will not require to 

 not be much varied ; the Tan-bed be fo often cleaned, as when the 

 thould never be narrower than fix, other Coal is ufed. The next beft 

 nor mould it be more than feven, Fuel fcr Stoves is Peat, where it 



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