102 THE HOT-HOUSE. [Jan. 
the succession stove particularly, nearly like the main one, with 
erect glasses in front, and sloping sashes at top, with a door for en- 
trance, and an alley or walk next the back wall at least, or more 
eligible if continued all round the bark-pit. 
Observing, however, if these smaller stoves are joined to the end 
of the main one, they may be divided from it only by a sliding glass 
partition for communication with each other, particularly the suc- 
cession and main stove, but with separate furnaces and flues to each 
department, because the young pine-plants do not at all times re- 
quire the same degree of fire-heat as the older pines, especially 
those of proper size for fruiting; so that by having separate fires, 
the heat can be regulated accordingly. 
The nursery stove or pit may be of smaller dimensions, in re- 
spect to width and height, than the succession-house, if thought con- 
venient: and if designed wholly as a pit without any path or walk 
within, six or seven feet width may be sufficient, by five or six high 
in the back wall, and four in front, the whole internal space being 
filled with tan three feet deep to form the bark-bed: serving chiefly 
as a nursery in which to strike and nurse the annual increase of 
crowns and suckers of the ananas or pine-plants the first year; also 
to raise many tender plants from seeds, cuttings, &c. without in- 
cumbering the main stove; and when they are forwarded to such a 
state of growth as to require more room, they are removed to the 
succession-house. 
But the succession-house may be nearly on the plan of the main 
stove, though of smaller dimensions both in the width and height; 
and is intended to receive the year old pine-plants from the pit or 
nursery stove. In order to plunge them at greater distances, suf- 
ficient to give the whole proper scope to take their full growth 
another year, when they will generally be arrived to a proper size 
for fruiting the year following: being previously removed in au- 
tumn to the main fruiting stove to succeed the old fruiting plants, 
which generally by September have all yielded their produce, are 
then removed away, and their place supplied by a sufficient quan- 
tity of large plants from the succession-house, being arrived to 
a proper state of growth to produce fruit next summer; the 
largest succession-house is at the same time replenished with 
the plants from the nursery pit, which next autumn will proba- 
bly be also arrived to a proper size for removing to the fruiting- 
house to succeed the others, and the nursery-pit, supplied with 
young crowns and suckers of the year, from the fruit and old plants, 
to strike and forward them in ready successions for the above oc- 
casions. 
Thus, by having the 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 
