the end of the range on each hand beyond the Stoves *, 
and if there be a flue carried along round each of 
thefe, with an oven to make a fire in very cold wea- 
ther, it will fave a great deal of labour, > and prevent 
the froft from ever entering the hcmfe, be the winter 
ever lb fevered but the upper glaffes of thefe houfes 
fhould have either fh utters of wood, or tarpaulins in 
frames to cover them in frofty weather •, and if there 
is a contrivance to cover the upright glaffes in froft, 
either with mats, fhutters, or tarpaulins, it will be of 
great ufe in winter, otherwife the flue muftbeufed when 
the froft comes on, which ftiould only be done upon 
extraordinary occafions ; becaufe the defign of thefe 
houfes is, to keep fuch plants as require only to be 
preferred from froft, and need no additional warmth ; 
but at the fame time, require more air than can con- 
veniently be given them in a green-houfe. In one of 
thefe houfes may be placed all the forts of Ficoides, 
African Sedums, Cotyledons, and other fucculent 
plants from the Cape of Good Hope. In the other 
may be placed the feveral kinds of Ardtotis, Oflceo- 
fpermum, Royena, Lotus, and other woody or her- 
baceous plants from the fame country, or any other 
in the fame latitude. 
Thus by contriving the green-houfe in the middle, 
and one Stove and a glafs-cafe at each end, there 
will be a conveniency to keep plants from all the dif- 
ferent parts of the world, which can be no otherwife 
maintained but by placing them in different degrees 
of heat, according to the places of their native growth. 
The Stoves before defcribed are fuch as are ufually 
built to maintain exotic plant, which will not live in 
England, unlefs they enjoy a temperature of air, ap- 
proaching to that of the feveral countries from whence 
they are brought ; therefore, whoever is inclinable to 
preierve a large colledtion of plants from different 
countries, muft contrive to have two or three of thefe 
Stoves, each of which fhould be kept in a different 
temperature of warmth •, and the plants fhould be al- 
fo adapted to the feveral degrees of heat, as they fhall 
reqpire to preferve them ; but for the better informa- 
tion of thofe perfons who are not converfant in this 
bufinefs, there is a lift of plants added by way of ap- 
pendix to this •, in which the plants are ranged accord- 
ing to the different degrees of heat which they re- 
quire to be preferved in this country, to which the 
reader is defired to turn for his further information : 
and as the far greateft number of Stoves which have 
been eredted in England, are defigned for the culture 
of the Ananas only, fo I fhall add a defcription and 
plans of two forts of Stoves, of the leaft expence in 
building for this purpofe *, fo that whoever is inclina- 
ble to eredt a Stove for ripening of the Ananas, may, 
by attending to the plans and defcriptions, dired the 
building and contriving fuch Stoves as they are defirous 
to have, or according to the number of fruit propofed 
to be ripened annually. 
The firft fort of Stove is that which is defigned for 
the plants, which produce the fruit the fame year ; 
for as the plants do not generally fruit until the fecond 
year from their being taken from the old plants, 
whether they are fuckers from the fide of the plants 
or crowns taken from the fruit, if they fruit the luc- 
ceeding year, the fruit will be fmall ; therefore when 
they are properly managed, they will not produce 
their fruit until the fecond year, by which time 
they will have obtained ftrength to produce large 
fruit, in which their greateft value confifts ; for al- 
though there are feveral varieties of this fruit, which 
differ in degrees of goodnefs, as in moft other fruits, 
yet they may all of them be improved in their fize, 
without diminifhing of their excellence in tafte •, tho* 
I know there are fome perfons of a contrary opinion, 
and who believe that the fmall fruit are always better 
flavoured than the large ; but from long experience I 
can affert, that the larger and better nourifhed this 
fruit is, the higher will be its flavour, fuppofing the 
forts are the fame ; therefore every perfon who culti- 
vates this fruit, fhould endeavour to have it improv- 
ed to the greateft perfection j in order to which it will 
be proper to have a fmall Stove, in which the yoliog 
plants may be placed to bring them forward for fruit- 
ing, and the following autumn they fhould be remov- 
ed into the larger Stove for ripening : but I fhall re- 
turn to the defcription of the larger Stove. The 
length of this muft be proportionable to the quantity 
of fruit defired in one fealon, for as to their width, 
that fhould not be much varied ; the tan-bed fhould 
never be narrower than fix, nor fhould it be more than 
feven feet wide *, for when it is more, there v/ill be 
difficuly in reaching thofe plants which are in the mid- 
dle of the bed,- to water or clean them ; and if there 
is room enough on each fide of the bed for a walk a 
foot and a half broad, it will be fufficient for perfons 
to water and do every thing which is neceffary to the 
plants 5 and as thefe places are not defigned for walk- 
ing in, fo it is to no purpofe to have broad walks, 
which will take up too much fpace ; and the fires 
muft be larger, in proportion to the fpace of the houfe, 
otherwife the air cannot be kept in a proper tempera- 
ture of warmth. If the' Stove is made thirty-fix feet 
long in the clear, then the tan-bed may be thirty-three 
feet long, and a walk left at each end a foot and a 
half wide, which will be fufficient to walk round the 
bed to water and attend the plants * and fuch a tan- 
bed will contain eighty fruiting plants very well if the 
bed is feven feet wide, and this ftove may be very 
well warmed with one fire ; but if the Stove is built 
much larger, there muft be two fire-places contrived, 
one at each end, otherwife the air of the hou fe cannot 
be kept in a proper temperature of heat. The quan- 
tity of fuel which will be wanting for a Stove of thir- 
ty-fix feet long in the clear, is about three chaldron 
and a half of coals, or in fuch proportion for any 
other fort of fuel ; when coals can be had reafonable, 
it is the beft kind of fuel ; and the pit or Scotch coal 
is preferable to the Newcaftle coal, becaufe the latter 
is very fubjedt to melt or run into clinkers when the 
oven is very hot, which the pit coal never does, but 
always burns away with a white afh, making but little 
foot ; fo that the flues will not require to be fo often 
cleaned, as when the other coal is ufed. The next 
beft fuel for Stoves is peat, where it can be procured 
good, but the fcent of this fuel is difagreeable to ma- 
ny people. There are fome perfons who burn wood 
in their Stoves, but this fuel requires much greater 
attendance than any other, therefore is not very 
proper for this purpofe ; but in the building of the 
Stoves, the ovens muft be contrived for the fort of fuel 
which is to be ufed in them •, but thefe will be after- 
ward defcribed, and the places where they fhould be 
fituated, are delineated in the plan. 
The Stoves defigned for ripening the fruit of the 
Ananas fhould have upright glaffes in their front, 
which fhould be high enough to admit a perfon to 
walk upright under them on the walk in the front 
of the houfe ; or where this cannot be admitted, the 
front walk may be funk one foot lower than that on 
the back of the tan-bed, fo that the furface of the 
bed will be a foot above the walk, which will be rather 
an advantage, as the plants will be fo much nearer 
the glafs ; and a perfon may with great eafe water and 
attend the plants when they are thus raffed above the 
walk ; therefore, when a Stove is fo fituated, as that 
the raffing of it high above ground might be attend- 
ed with inconvenience, the walks quite round the tan- 
bed may be funk a foot or eighteen inches below the 
top of the bed, which will admit of the Stove being 
built fo much lower •, for if there is height for a perfon 
to walk under the glaffes, it will be as much as is re- 
quired •, but as the flues, when returned four times 
againft the back wall will rife near feven feet, fo the 
bottom of the lower flue ffrould be on the fame level 
with the walk, to admit room enough for the whole 
under the roof. Over the upright glaffes there muft 
be a range of Hoping glaffes, which muft run to join 
the roof, which fhould come fo far from the bade 
wall as to cover the flues, and the walk behind the 
tan-pit •, for if the Hoping glaffes are of length fuffi- 
cient to reach nearly over the bed, the plants v/ill re- 
