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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



benefit of tlie " dealers" than the advan- 

 tage of the amateur, or the advancement 

 of the most beautiful of flowers. 



Prior. 



Romerton, Oct. ll/A, 1861. 



[Weliaveliad few autumn roses at Stoke 

 Newinjjton; there are more coming now 

 (Oct. 26) tlian since July. Our i)lants of i 

 N. Conielic, IL T. Geant, and IL P. | 

 Prince Leon, are covered with fine blooms, I 



•which the first frost will destroy. At 

 pp. 162-3 of this year's issue, we describe 

 the few new roses we could recommend. 

 Of Reine des Violettes we were then in 

 doubt ; we can now clear np that point by 

 pronouncing it utterly unworthy of cul- 

 ture. The figure of it in Verschaffelt's 

 L' III usi ration was an artist's exaggei'a,- 

 tion. — Ed.] 



THE BOILER OP THE WALTONIAN CASE. 



Numerous applications have been made 

 to us for a sectional diagram of the boiler 

 of theWaltonian. It was described not 

 long since, by a learned writer, as an ex- 

 traordinary piece of mechanism, "as com- 

 plicated as a Geneva watch." This gentle- 

 man's knowledge of the subject may be 

 determined by the subjoined cuts ; the 

 boiler IS perhaps the simplest thing of the 

 kaid imaginable. We cut open a case and 



small escape pipe, one inch in diameter, 

 formed of lead, to which is attached the 

 tin or zinc chimney or fine. This outer 

 case, in ■which the heat from the lamp 

 ciiculates, is twenty inches by thirteen 

 inches, and two inches deep. The inner 

 case, B, is a simple trough formed of sheet 

 zinc, turned np at the edges and kept at 

 its proper distance from the bottom of the 

 outer case by means of four short legs or 



sent the boiler to the engraver, for the 

 double purpose of completing the descrip- 

 tions that have appeared in the Floral 

 AVoRLD, and to inform the writer just 

 referred to that there are " more things in 

 heaven or earth than are dreamt of in his 

 philosophy." The boiler is constructed of 

 stout zinc, and is attached to the large zinc 

 tray on which the bed of sand is laid. It 

 consists of A, an outer case, with orifice 

 near the front, three inches in diameter, 

 for the entrance of the hot air from the 

 flame of lamp or candle. On the side 

 corresponding to the back of the case is a 



rests, one inch in length, formed by zinc 

 bent into tubes ; thus the boiler proper 

 is three quarters of an inch deep. As 

 this short description contains a personal 

 allusion I here sign my name. 



Shirley Hibbebd. 



RiiOT)ODENr>Rox DAnuRicuM. — A large 

 plant of this rhododendron, in the garden 

 of JEiss Mercer, Uushy Vili.a, Teddington, 

 is now in (iiio bloom, and in Hampton 

 Court Gardens one of the sanie species 

 is coming into bloom. 



