This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
Bark Stove is a kind of hot-house, containing a bed of tanners' spent bark, mixed, according to circumstances, with a proportion of earth and other matters, in which are placed the plants, in pots or otherwise. The bed is usually gently heated from a flue underneath, which together with its disposition to ferment of itself (when kept moist), forms a powerful stimulant to accelerate and perfect the growth of exotic plants.
 
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