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The contrivance of the furnace muft be according to 
the fuel which is defigned to burn, but as turf is the 
belt firing for Stoves, where it can be had cheap, ma- 
ny prefer it, becaufe it lafts longer than any other 
fort of fuel, and fo requires lefs attendance, I fliall 
defcribe a proper fort of furnace for that purpofe. 
The whole of this furnace fhould be ere&ed within 
the houfe, which will be a great addition to the heat, 
and the front-wall on the outfide of the fire-place, 
next the fired, fhould be three bricks thick, the better 
to prevent the heat from coming out that way. The 
door of the furnace, at which the fuel is put in, muft 
be as fmall as conveniently may be to admit of the 
fuel 5 and this door fhould be placed near the up- 
per part of the furnace, and made to fhut as clofe as 
poffible, fo that there may be but little of the heat 
pafs off through it. This furnace fhould be about 
twenty inches deep, and fixteen inches fquare at bot- 
tom, but may be" Hoped off on every fide, fo as to be 
two feet fquare at the top, and under this furnace 
fhould be a place for the afhes to fall into, which 
fhould be about a foot deep, and as wide at the bot- 
tom of the furnace ; this fhould alfo have an iron door 
to fhut as clofe as poffible, but juft over the affi hole, 
above the bars which fupport the fuel, fhould be a 
fquare hole about four or fix inches wide to let in air 
to make the fire burn : this muft alfo have an iron 
frame, and a door to fhut clofe when the fire ds per- 
fectly lighted, which will make the fuel laft longer, 
and the heat will be more moderate. 
The top of this furnace fhould be nearly equal to 
the top of the bark-bed, that the loweft flue may be 
above the fire, fo that there may be a greater draught 
for the fmoke, and the furnace fhould be arched over 
with bricks. The beft materials for this purpofe are 
what the bricklayers call Windfor bricks, which fhould 
be laid in loam of the fame kind as the bricks are made 
with, which, when burnt by the fire, will cement the 
whole together, and become like one brick ; but you 
fhould be very careful, wherever the fire is placed, 
that it be not too near the bark-bed, for the heat of the 
fire will, by its long continuance, dry the bark, fo 
that it will lofe its virtue, and be in danger of taking 
fire •, to prevent which, it will be the beft method to 
continue a hollow, between the brick-work of the 
fire and that of the pit, about four or five inches wide, 
which will effectually prevent any damage arifing 
from the heat of the fire 5 nor fhould there be any 
wood-work placed near the flues, or the fire-place, 
becaufe the Continual heat of the Stove may in time 
dry it lo much as to caufe it to take fire, which 
fhould be very carefully guarded againfL 
The entrance into this Stove fhould be either from a 
green-houfe, the dry Stove, or elfe through the ffied 
where the fire is made, becaufe in cold weather the 
front-glaffes mnft not be opened. The infide of the 
houfe fhould be clean and white-wafhed, becaufe the 
whiter the back part of the houfe is, the better it will 
refteCt the light, which is of great confequence to 
plants, efpecially in winter, when the Stove is obliged 
to be fhut up clofe. 
Over the top fliding-glaffes there fhould be either 
wooden ffiutters, or tarpaulins fixed in frames to co- 
ver them in bad weather, to prevent the wet from 
getting through the glaffes, and to fecure them from 
being broken by ftorms of hail, and thefe outer co- 
verings will be very ferviceable to keep out the froft ; 
and if in very fevere cold there is a tarpaulin hung be- 
fore the upright glafies in the front, it will be of great 
fervice to the Stove, for then much lefs fire willpre- 
ferve a heat in the houfe. 
In the warmeft of thefe houfes or divifions fhould be 
placed the molt tender exotic trees and plants, a lift of 
which followeth 
Acajou, or Cafhew,. 
Ahouai, 
Allegator Pear, 
Allfpice, or Pimento,, 
Arrow-root, 
Bananas, 
Baftard Cedar of Barba- 
does, 
Baftard Locuft. of Barba- 
does, 
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Bully-tree, 
Button-wood of Earba- 
does, 
Cabbage- tree. 
Cocoa-tree, 
Calabafh-tree, 
Caffada, 
Cherry-tree of Barbadoes, 
Cocoa-nut-tree, 
Cortex Winteranus, 
Cuftard-apple, 
Date-tree, 
Dumb Cane, 
Fid die- wood, 
Fig-tree, the arched In- 
dian, 
Flower-fence of Barba- 
does, 
Fuftic-tree, 
Ginger, 
Logwood, 
Macaw-tree, 
Mamee-tree. 
Manchineel-tree, 
Mimofa, or Senfitive 
Plants, 
Nickar-tree, or Bojiduc, 
Palm-trees, offeveral forts, 
Papaw-tree, 
Plantain-tree, 
Plum-tree of Jamaica, 
Hog-plum, 
Sapotilla-tree, 
Santa Maria, 
Sour Sop, 
Sugar-Apple, 
Sweet Sop, 
Tamarind- tree. 
Tulip-flower, or White - 
' wood. 
Guaiacum, 
Thefe with moft other forts of trees, ffirubs, and her- 
baceous plants, which are natives of very warm 
countries, fhould be plunged in the bark-bed for the 
reafons already affigned, and over the flues may be a 
conveniency made to fet the Melon Thiftle, the ten- 
der forts of Cereufes, and Euphorbiums, with other 
very tender fucculent plants, which require to be kept 
dry in winter. 
As in this Stove are placed the plants of the hotteft 
parts of the Eaft and Weft-Indies, the heat fhould be 
kept up equal to that marked Anana upon the botani- 
cal thermometers, and fhould never be fuffered to be 
above eight or ten degrees cooler at moft nor fhould 
the fpirit be raifed above ten degrees higher in the 
thermometer during the winter feafon, both which 
extremes will be equally injurious, to the plants. 
But in order to judge more exadly of the temper of 
the air in the Stove, the thermometer fhould be hung 
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at a good diftance from the fire*, nor fhould the tube 
be expofed to the fun, but, on the contrary, as much 
in fhade as poffible ; becaufe, whenever the fun fhines 
upon the bail of the thermometer but one Angle 
hour, it will raife the liquor in the tube confiderably, 
when perhaps the air of the houfe is. not near fo 
warm, which many times deceives thofe who are not 
aware of this. 
In the management of the plants placed in the bark- 
bed, there muft be a particular regard had to the tem- 
per of the bark, and the air of the houfe, that neither 
be too violent; as alfo to water them frequently, but 
fparingly in cold weather, becaufe when they are in- 
continual warmth, which will caufe them to perfpire 
freely, if they have not a proper fupply to anfwer 
their difeharge,. their leaves will decay, and foon fall 
off. As to the farther directions concerning the cul- 
ture of the particular plants, the reader is de fired to 
turn to their feveral articles, where they are diftinCtly 
treated of. 
The other fort of Stove, which is commonly called 
the dry Stove, as was before laid, may be either built 
with upright and hoping glaffes at the top, in the fame 
manner, and after the fame model of the bark 
Stove, which is the moft convenient; or elfe the 
front glaffes, which fhould run from the floor of 
the cieling, may be laid Hoping, to an angle of 
45 degrees, the better to. admit the rays of the 
fun in fpring and autumn, when the fun declines. 
The latter method has been chiefly followed by moft 
perfons who have built thefe forts of Stoves, but where 
I have had the contrivance of Stoves of this kind, I 
have always built them after the model of the bark 
Stove, with upright glaffes in front, and floping glaffes. 
over them, becaufe this will more eafily admit the fun 
at all the different feafbns ; for in Hummer, when the 
fun is high, the top glafies will admit the rays to fhine 
alrnoft ail over the houfe, and in winter, when the 
fun is low, the front glaffes will admit its rays ; 
whereas, when the glaffes are laid to any declivity in. 
one direction,, the rays of the fun will not fall directly 
thereon 
