WARMING AND VENTILATING HOUSES. 



As Col. Hodge has incidentally mentioned it, let me say a word about the 

 Porter Apple. — It has borne M'ith me only two or three years, on young trees. Yet 

 so far, I think it the very best cooking apple of its season, say from early in September to 

 the middle of November. It is a fair, and rich table apple, but rather tart to my taste, as 

 I am not partial to tart fruits. It will cook in almost any way — either bake, stew, or fry, 

 in a very few minutes. It is, besides, of good size, large, fair, uniform, well distributed 

 on the tree, and bears most abundantly. As a desirable house-keeping, and market apple, 

 its equal is seldom to be found. I shall cultivate it largely. The tree grows vigorously, 

 the wood is strong, and the tree has a finely spreading top. In fact, I have yet seen no 

 objection to it in any particular, of wood or fruit. Lewis F. Allen. 



Black.Rock, April, 1652. 



WARMING AND VENTILATINa HOUSES. 



BY A D. G., CLINTON, N. Y. 



I have read your various articles upon heating and ventilating houses, with much in- 

 terest. And this, partly because of the great general importance of the subject, but espe- 

 cially, because of its connection with my own health and comfort. A pulmonary aifection 

 has driven me for two winters past, to the South, in search of a milder and purer air than, 

 with our present modes of arranging houses, could be found at the North. In your work 

 on Country Houses, you concede, if I remember rightly, that the best modes now prac- 

 ticed for securing a warm and wholesome air in our homes in winter, are most expensive, 

 and not likely to be adopted by persons of moderate income. If any plan can be contriv- 

 ed, suitable for general use, it would certainly be a great public benefit. Profiting by 

 some of your own suggestions, allow me to propose a plan which may lead towards such 

 a result. 



For the month of October, November and April, open fire-places, with Arnott's chim- 

 ney-valve, in every room, will answer all needful purposes. But when December's blasts 

 begin to blow, place your stove in any convenient part of the room, enclose it in a taste- 

 ful Kussia iron case, leaving a space between the two on all sides, of six or eight inches. 

 Let a door be made in the sheet iron case, corresponding to the door of the inner stove, 

 only somewhat larger, to facilitate putting in fuel. Have a place in the outer stove sunk 

 in over against the draught of the inner, so that the draught will communicate with the 

 air of the apartment, and not with that between the two stoves. Cover the top of this 

 sheet iron case with an ornamental grate, or wire gauze, surrounding the urn of water 

 standing on the inner stove. Now connect this apparatus with the air out of doors, by a 

 tin conductor, from three to five inches in diameter, leading from your cellar window, 

 along under the parlor floor, and then up through tlie floor, immediately under the stove, 

 into the open space before described. Insert a register in the pipe directly under the stove, 

 by turning which with your foot, you can easily regulate the quantity of fresh air you 

 wish to admit. 



These outer stoves can be made quite ornamental, and can be put up in as many rooms 

 as you desire to warm. 



The objects proposed to be gained by this arrangement are obvious. Fresh air will be 

 constantly introduced into the house, and yet not admitted into the apartment occupied, 

 t has passed around the heated sides of the stove, and become somewhat warmed, 

 state, no harm can accrue from it to the health of the most delicate, while if a simi- 



