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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 grovk'th; at least with pro- 
bably the assistance only of a small detached bark-pit, or a bark and 
duns hot-bed under a large garden frame, to strike and nurse the 
yearling crowns and suckers of the pmes, &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, 8cc. 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 cer- 
tainty, obtain a regular annual succession of fruiting pines in per- 
fection. 
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 whether, 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 vi-^ould 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 diff"erent 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 diff"erent 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 a conveniency 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 not hav- 
ing a bark-pit; it is furnished with flues as the other, and conse- 
rjuently produces a more dry heat; being intended principally for 
the culture of some very succulent tender exotics of parched soils, 
that require to be kept always dry. Persons who have full collec- 
tions of exotics prefer this kind of stove, in order to deposit the 
most succulent kinds therein, separate from plants which perspire 
more freely, least the damp occasioned by such perspiration, and the 
