430 THE GARDENER. [Sept. 



require in an early or late vinery, a plant, stove, or intermediate house, 

 from their own practice. 



If there is anything I do like to see, it is that people occupy their 

 proper positions in society without encroaching upon the duties of 

 others. 



In the main, I agree with much that Mr Makenzie has said with 

 regard to boilers and heating. The fault I find is, that he has said so 

 little that everybody does not know. I have worked the terminal 

 saddle, the Whitley Court, and many others, with more or less success, 

 according to the knowledge of those who "set" the boilers and arranged 

 the work, which is, after all, the great point in heating ; and I have 

 also seen Wright's boiler (which Mr Makenzie has gone out of his way 

 to condemn) giving the highest satisfaction at two places, in one of 

 which the head -gardener is something of an engineer as well as a 

 horticulturist. 



The point which I would like to see Mr Makenzie determine for us is, 

 how it is that we have for years been burying money in deep stoke-holes 

 when it is quite practicable to do the work without them. I visited a 

 garden some time ago, where, to obviate the necessity of sinking a deep 

 stoke-hole, an expansion-box was fixed several feet above the boiler — 

 the water rising in the flow-pipe into the expansion-box, and then de- 

 scending perpendicularly a distance of 7 feet into the pipes, which 

 are set on a "dead level" throughout their entire length, except that 

 the return-pipe dips a little a few feet from the boiler. 



Practical Gardener. 



SMALL CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR HOUSE 

 FURNISHING. 



Useful as the Chrysanthemum undoubtedly is when grown into large 

 bush specimens for conservatory embellishment, or in the various other 

 ways in which it is trained and cultivated, there is no form in which it 

 can be grown that is more useful to the gardener than that of growing 

 it in small pots for stands or vases for indoor furnishing. These plants 

 when properly cultivated in small pots are so useful for arranging en 

 masse at the base of large mirrors, or for grouping together in stands in 

 their different colours, as well as forming front lines to groups of plants, 

 that it is a wonder they are not more generally employed for the pur- 

 poses above described. 



The reason may, however, be explained to some extent by the fact 

 that the mode of cultivation which is necessary in order to secure dwarf 

 plants for such a purpose is not generally understood. 



It may appear strange to many cultivators of the Chrysanthemum to 

 learn that the month of August is the proper time to propagate for this 

 purpose ; but of course the ultimate result depends a good deal upon 

 the strength and condition of the cuttings when they are taken, and to 



