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CULTURE OF STOVE PLANTS. 
FLORICULTURE. 
Article III.—PLAN AND DESCRIPTION OF A PLANT STOVE, 
AT CHATSWORTH, 
With some Remarks on the Management of Tropical Plants. 
The house now appropriated to the general culture of Stove plants, 
at Chatsvvorth, of the front of which we gave a sketch in our last, 
page 57, was originally built for a greenhouse, to which purpose it 
was devoted, until 3 years ago, when the interior was remodelled, 
and a new glass roof was placed onjt, making of it an excellent Plant 
Stove. 
The whole length of the building is 110 feet, the breadth 16 feet 
6 inches, inside the walls. The pit ( a ) on which the large plants are 
placed, is 7 feet wide, elevated 1 foot above the walk. 
The front walk is paved with stones, and is 5 feet six inches wide; 
betwixt each of the front windows, is a kind of semi-circular stone 
bason, (y) extending two feet six inches from the front wall; these 
basons are filled with rich soil, and are planted with trailing plants, 
as Thunbergia alata, &c &c, which are trained up a trellis to the front 
wall.—The centre of the house is occupied with rock work, ( b) in the 
front part of which is formed a basin for aquatic plants, which basin 
extends beneath the rock work to the back wall, where it is supplied 
by a tap. 
There are four furnaces, two of Witty’s for the front flues, and two 
common ones for the flues under the back elevated walk ; all the flues 
pass into the back wall in the centre of the house, as shown by the 
dotted lines. The heat from the front flues is admitted through iron 
grates (<?) two feet six inches long, and eight inches broad; a hot- 
hair cavity also passes round each of the front basins, and sends heat 
into the house, by means of a grate opposite each of the front win¬ 
dows. 
The back walk (/) is elevated 7 feet from the ground, and is as¬ 
cended by a flight of eight steps. This walk is two feet six inches wide, 
and on the side next the wall, is an elevated border, one foot wide, 
chiefly appropriated to succulent plants; the hot air from the flues is 
admitted betwixt the bars of wood of which the walk is composed, 
and has on the side next the plants a neat wooden balustrade, behind 
which are the back sheds {h). 
Culture of Stove Plants. 1. Nearly all Stove plants are 
easy of culture, although some possess peculiarities, which are neces¬ 
sary to be attended to, for their successful management. 
