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ways command a highish price for Irery fine 

 and for new ones, but their mixed kinds without 

 names are as cheap as possible, and most of them 

 are very good if well treated, but, like many oth« 

 er plants, the cultivation makes an essential dif* 

 ferenoot Ample directions, were given in the firsl 

 volume about the potting and after management 

 of these bulbs, to which I refer t he reader. C'ro* 

 cmes are the worst things to force, because, if 

 they are excited too freely, they give nothing but 

 a bunch of leaves, They do best if they are in the 

 borders when taken up about the end of November 

 or later, as by that time their flower-buds are 

 well up, and it' they are removed in lumps of 

 earth, and the interstices just filled up when 6et 

 in the pots, they take no hurt. There is a beau- 

 tiful little iris which flowers naturally early in the 

 spring, and 16 easily forced ; it is called the Per- 



sian iris. The common double ami single daffo' 

 dil from the fields, flower two months earlier with 

 a gentle heat, but they should nil be potted in 

 October in some light sandy mould, if yon prefer 

 that to moss. One seldom Bees the snowdrop lore* 

 cd, but it will answer jusl as well as the crocus j 

 and bo will the snowjiake, and, indeed, all the 

 hardy bulbs which (lower with ne in the Bpringi 

 Although I nse the common expression "forcing," 

 there need be no real forcing at all; and if I say 

 assist them by a gentle heat, that does not convey 

 the meaning much better. If our September 

 weather, on the average of seasons, were to con- 

 tinue through the winter, it is very likely these 

 spring bulbs would (lower with us in February] 

 and, by imitating the mild September weather in- 

 doors, we call it forcing. — D. Beaton, in the Cot' 

 tage Gardener* 



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Bostoi* Ventilatj.no Stove. — Wc are no 

 friends to stoves in general — convenient and popu- 

 lar as we know them to b( — since we also know 

 that they render the air impure, besides preventing 

 all the usual wholesome ventilation which, in an 

 open fire place, takes place through the chimney. 



We saw in Boston, however, last spring, Dr. 

 Clarke's patent ventilating stove, which appears 

 to be an exception to most of its fellows, since it 

 provides a constant stream of fresh air, which is 

 warmed in its passage through the air-chamber of 

 the stove ,< — an immense advantage over the com- 

 mon close stove. 



Those stoves, of Various sizes, have been intro- 

 duced into the common schools of Boston, where 

 they are greatly approved of, and for the follow- 

 ing reasons, according to Mr. Bahnand.* 



" 1st. They are in fact furnaces, having distinct 

 and capacious air-chambers. 



2d. They insure, when properly set, that sup- 

 ply of fresh air which is indispensable to the pro 

 per ventilation of any apartment. 



3d, The regulating distributor, which is mova- 

 ble or fixed, as may be desired, determines with 

 accuracy the amount and temperature of the ad- 

 mitted air, 



4th. The outer cylinder is never hot enough to 

 burn the person or clothing, or to be uncomforta- 

 ble to those in its immediate vicinity. 



5th. They arc constructed with the utmo-i re- 

 gard to efficiency . durability, oompaotness and 

 neatness of appearance." 



Fig. 96 shows the exterior and interior view of 

 one of these stoves. A hole is out in the floor, 

 over which the stove is placed, and a box or pipe 



* Barnard's School Architecture. 



is led from this hole through an aperture in tho 

 cellar, so as to supplj it constantly with fresh air. 

 At the upper part of the stove is the " regulating 

 distributor," which is in fact B top, which rises 

 and falls on a pivot screw, so as. with ,i slight 

 turn with the hand, to widen or close the aper- 

 ture through which the heated air enters the room. 

 The stove itself is lined with fire-brick, so as to 

 give a Bteady, moderate heat, which oan 1" regu- 

 lated at pleasure. 



This stove is not only excellent for halls and 

 apartments of dwellings, schools, &c, but it 



