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Nursery and Succession Stoves. 
Besides the main bark-stove already described, it is very con- 
venient to have one or two smaller, such as a nursery-pit, and a 
succession stove, particularly where there are large collections, 
and more especially in the culture of pine-apples; one serving as a 
nursery-pit, in which to strike and nurse the young offspring 
crowns, and suckers of the old pines for propagation; the other as 
a succession-house for receiving the year old plants from the 
nursery-pit, and forwarding them a year to a proper size for fruit- 
ing, as succession plants, to furnish the main stove or fruiting- 
house every autumn, to succeed the old plants then done fruiting. 
These smaller stove departments prove materially useful in the 
culture of pines, particularly to I'aise and nurse the young plants, 
until arrived to a proper age and size to produce fruit; then moved 
into the main stove or fruiting-house, which being thus supplied 
from these smaller stoves, with a succession of fruiting plants an- 
nually, without being crowded or incommoded with the rearing of 
the said succession plants, proves a particular advantage, not only 
in the culture of the fruiting plants, as they often require a higher 
degree of heat than the succession plants, at particular times, in 
order to forward and improve the growth of their fruit; but it is also 
making the best advantage of this main department, to have the 
bark-bed instantly filled with fruiting plants only, producing a 
full crop of proper sized pine-apples every year, which could not al- 
ways be effected with such certainty and perfection without the 
aid of these succession stoves; because the pine-plants in their 
infant state require sometimes different management from the 
fruiting plants, particularly in respect to the degree of fire-heat, 
which, in general, should be more moderate than for the fruiting 
plants, lest too much should force them into fruit in their minor 
growth, when incapable of prodcuing such in any tolerable per- 
fection. 
Therefore, these smaller succession stoves may be erected as 
appendages to the main house, or may be detached at some little 
distances, as may be convenient; though if the situation admits, 
it may be both more convenient and ornamental to join them in a 
line with the main stove, one at each end, and nearly of the same 
construction, but smaller both in length, width, and height, if 
thought proper: these are sometimes formed in the manner of a 
common detached bark-pit, without any upright glasses in front, 
having a wall all round, five or six feet high behind, gradually slop- 
ing at each end, to about four feet in front, and with only sliding 
glasses at top, more particularly the nursery stove, commonly and 
simply called the pit, because the whole internal space in length and 
width is often allotted entirely as a pit for a bark-bed without any 
walk within, or door for entrance, the necessary culture being per- 
formed by sliding open the glasses at top, and the flues for the fires 
being formed in the upper part of the back wall, above the surface 
height of the bark-bed: however, it may be more eligible to form 
