1Q2 THE HOT-HOUSE. [Jan. 
crowns and suckers of the year, from the fruit and old plants, 
to strike and forward them in ready successions for the above 
occasions. 
Thus by having tiie different stove departments always furnished 
with pine plants of three different stages of growth, succeeding one 
another regularly, i. e. the nursery pit containing the yearly crowns 
and suckers, the succession pit the one and two years plants, and 
the main stove the fruiting plants, a constant succession is thereby 
annually obtained, for the same individual plants never produce 
fruit but once; they, however, produce a plentiful supply of crowns 
and suckers which commence proper plants, attaining a fruiting 
state in regular succession. 
However, in many places, the situation or convenience not ad- 
mitting but of one common stove to raise and forward the pines 
and other exotics in their different stages of growth, at least with 
probably the assistance only of a small detached bark-pit, or a bark 
and dung hot-bed under a large garden frame, to strike and nurse 
the yearling crowns and suckers of the pines, &c. of each year, 
until they are about a year old, then moved into the stove; where, 
with the proper requisite culture, are produced not only very good 
pine-apples, but also many curious exotics, flowers, other fruits, &c. 
at an early season. 
But having a main stove with two smaller ones adjoining nearly 
on the same plan as above hinted, you can always, with greater 
certainty, obtain a regular annual succession of fruiting pines in 
perfection. 
A private passage or small door, made from the back shed into 
the hot-house, close to one of the ends, or at any convenient place, 
will be found extremely useful in severe weather for entering into 
the house to examine the temperature of the heat, or to do the other 
necessary work, when it would be ineligible to open the outer doors. 
It would be an eligible way, for persons who have large collec- 
tions of exotics, to have the green-house in the middle, with a stove 
and glass case at each end; the stoves to be next the green-house, 
and the glass cases at the extremities, made exactly in the same 
manner as the bark stoves, and to range with them. 
These glass cases being furnished with flues, but no bark-pits, 
are in fact dry stoves; they may be kept of different temperatures 
of heat, and ought to be furnished with roof and front coverings of 
some kind to be used occasionally. The bark stoves may also be 
kept of different temperatures, so as to suit the various habits of 
the plants. 
Thus by contriving the green-house in the middle, and a stove 
and glass case at each end, there will be aconveniency for keeping 
plants from all parts of the world; which cannot be otherwise main- 
tained in good health, but by placing them in the different degrees 
of heat, corresponding with that of their native countries. 
The Dry-stove. 
This stove differs in no wise from the bark-stove, but in riot hav- 
