By Mr. John Haythorn. 



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The back and front walls of the back flue, are carried up 

 with a brick on edge, so as to make a border for earth over 

 the flue ; an interval or cavity being formed between the top 

 of the flue, and bottom of the border. Holes capable of 

 being stopped with plugs, are made into this cavity, (see 

 figure 8). The top of the flue in the cavity under the border, 

 is covered with sand to receive water, when poured into the 

 cavity through the plug-holes. Under the back glass of this 

 stove, wires six inches apart, supported from the rafters by 

 short stronger wires, with eyes at the ends, are carried hori- 

 zontally, the whole length of the houses, at eight inches from 

 the glass. To these wires the smaller sorts of Melons, which 

 are grown on the border over the flue, are trained. 



The Cucumber stove has borders over the front, as well as 

 the back part of the flue, similar to the one at the back of the 

 Melon stove ; the middle part of the stove is vacant, and the 

 Cucumbers which are grown in the two borders are trained 

 on wires, similar to those in the back of the Melon stove 

 under the whole of the glass. In this stove, on the top of 

 that part of the flue which is at the end, a trough is formed 

 by bricks set on edge to hold water for the purpose of 

 evaporation. 



The larger sorts of Melons are kept in bearing through the 

 usual season, in the same way as in other Melon pits. The 

 smaller sorts of Melons are planted in the border, and trained 

 to the wires from whence the fruit grows suspended ; they 

 succeed admirably. When these last Melons are planted 



purposes of repair and cleaning. It would be a great improvement if the front wall 

 was built with arches opening to the internal cavity and the flue, and carried out- 

 side the house. A plan of this projected alteration is annexed, (see fig. 6 and 7). 

 If the house was not double, the flue at the end might also be carried outside. 

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