re of two kinds, distinguished by the names of the dry and the bark-stoves.

The dry stove has the flues, in which the smoke is carried, either laid under the pavement of the floor, or erected in the back part of the house over each other, and returned six or eight times all along the stove. In these stoves the plants are placed on scaffolds, and benches of boards, raised above one another; and the plants principally preserved in these are the aloes, ceruses, euphorbiums, tithymals, and other succulent plants, which are impatient of moisture in winter, and therefore are not to be kept among trees, or herbaceous plants, which perspire freely.

The bark-stoves are made with a large pit, nearly of the length of the house, which is three feet deep, and six or seven feet wide. This pit is to be filled with fresh tanner's bark to make a hot-bed, and in this the pots containing the tender plants are to be plunged.

**STOURBRIDGE,** a market-town, nineteen miles north of Worcester.

**STOUTT-RIEF,** in Scots law. See Law, Tit. xxxiii. 30.

**STOW,** a market-town, twenty miles east of Gloucester.

**STOWAGE,** in the sea-language, the placing goods orderly in the hold of a ship, viz. the heaviest next the ballast, &c.

**STOWEY,** a market-town of Somersetshire, eighteen miles west of Wells.

**STOW-MARKET,** a town of Suffolk, ten miles east of Bury.