CHEAP VINERIES AND GREEN-HOUSES 



be height enough along the back wall — which is 7 feet high, for a person to 

 erect. Such a house would make a capital cold-vinery at very trifling cost ; or if an early 

 vinery was desired, then by making the border inside to occupy the whole space, and by 

 putting in one of the heaters which we shall now describe, the structure would answer 

 equally well for that purpose. We believe it is Mr. Rivers' impression, that vines plant- 

 ed in the way shown in fig. 1, and trained to upright stakes, will produce a larger crop 

 of fruit in a given space than if fewer vines are planted, and trained in the ordinary mode 

 under the roof^but of this point we do not feel assured — while we do feel certain that 

 they will require more careful feeding to prevent their exhausting the soil. 



Mr. Rivers heats all his cheap pits, green-houses and structures of this kind, with a 

 very simple looking little affair, which he calls a " hrick-JrnotVs Stove." This stove 

 stands in the middle of the house, in a small space left for it there, so that it faces the 

 sunken walk, and it is fed with fuel, (coal,) from this walk. It is only a small mass of 

 brick work about 20 inches square and 3 feet high— the front looking like fig. 2. On opening 

 the cast iron door, a, you see a small chamber about 10 inches square, with a grate at the 

 bottom in which the fire is made. The other door, 6, opens to the ash- 

 pit, of the same size or a little deeper, below the fire. In this ash-pit 

 door is a very small hole to admit the air needful for combustion, and as 

 the Arnott's stove appears to be much upon the principle of our air 

 tight stoves, it consumes but a few handfuls of fuel in the course of 24 

 hours. On the other hand, as there are two thicknesses of brick, (the 

 inner one fire-brick,) all round the fire, the heat given out is so gradual 

 that the plants are not at all injured, as they often are by our common "' "' 



iron stoves, when standing near the plants. Of course there is a flue running back into 

 a small chimney in the back wall to carry off the smoke— just as in our common stoves. 



This brick-stove, in its common form, is merely covered with a thick cast iron plate, c. 

 But when a higher and a more uniform temperature is needed than that of an ordinary 

 green-house, Mr. Rivers adds to his brick-stove a cast iron boiler, fig. 3. This boiler is 

 cast in one piece with the exception of the pipes, which are ^ _- 

 wrought iron, and screw on. It costs in England 30 shillings, 

 (about ^7.50,) and is set within the brick-stove directly over the 

 fire chamber, so that its bottom is on a line with the top of the 

 door, a, fig. 2, and its top is covered by the iron plate c. As the water in this boiler be- 

 comes heated, it rises and flows through the pipe, e, which is run to one end or quite round 

 the house, and returns, entering the boiler again near its bottom, /. As the boiler is 

 tight, the water, of course, makes the circuit of the whole pipe, and keeps up a constant 

 circulation. The whole pipe, which rises but a few inches in its course, may thus be coii- 

 sidered a boiler — the only opening to which is at the highest point of the pipe, e — that is 

 to say, half way round the house — where there is an opening with a small reservoir for 

 supplying it with water. This is the simplest of all apparatus for heating by hot water, 

 and, in conjunction with the brick-stove, will heat such a house to any desired tempera- 

 ture. 



