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FRUIT-HOUSES. 



in pots are plunged. The front and ends 

 are pigeon-holed walls 9 inches thick, 

 and round them linings of hot dung, 

 4 feet wide, are kept in operation. These 

 linings are enclosed within a pit, and 

 covered over with oak boarding, which 

 prevents the waste of the dung, as well 

 as gives the whole a neat and orderly 

 appearance. This house is 38 feet long, 

 and 12 feet wide, having a narrow pas- 

 sage along the back ; and alongside of it 

 is placed the smoke-flue, which goes and 

 returns upon itself. The front of the 

 roof is formed of iron rafters and sashes ; 

 the back part of it is opaque. This is 

 altogether an excellent house, or rather 

 pit, for pines ; but we think it would be 

 much improved if the smoke-flues were 

 removed, and hot water in pipes made to 

 circulate round the front and ends, the 

 leaf-bed within converted into a hot- 

 water tank, the walls built solid, and the 

 external linings discontinued altogether. 

 These alterations would no doubt lessen 

 the labour of management, and give the 

 pit a neater appearance, as well as econo- 

 mise a great deal of dung, which could 

 be turned to an account equal to the 

 extra fuel required ; but notwithstanding 

 all this, we question if, even under Mr 

 Burn's excellent management, better 

 pines would be grown than there are at 

 present. 



Hendersons pinery. — Fig. 451 the ground- 

 Fig. 451. 



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plan, and fig. 452 the cross section. 

 The following plan and description of a 



Fig. 452. 



pine-stove, by Mr W. Henderson, nur- 

 seryman, Oxton, near Birkenhead, were 

 published in "The United Gardeners' 

 Journal." Mr Henderson has had great 

 experience as a garden architect ; and 



being himself not only an excellent prac- 

 tical gardener, but a man of general 

 intelligence and observation, his produc- 

 tions are entitled to all respect. The 

 woodcut given in the above paper is upon 



