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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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will need some attention during the night, not manner. Not much worse blunders can be 

 more than flues and likely not as much. I am ! made in any matter of equal importance than 

 notawareofany wood burning steam apparatus in steam-heating. No one, not well qualified, 

 now advertised "that will run anv great length of | should ever be allowed to have anything to do 

 time without attention, but have no doubt such : with the control of such work. Apply to parties 

 a demand made on almost any good maker | of well established reputation for character and 

 would be satisfactorily supplied. If coal is used, i knowledge and skill. I don't want a job, and 

 hard or soft, an apparatuscan be provided that ' may be I have not the requisite character, 

 will take care of itself for almost any night, i knowledge or skill, as I certainly have not the 

 certainly any but the worst. Such apparatus 



reputation. As this communication costs noth- 

 ing, it may be found worth it. 



When I told my wife I was writing a short 

 item for the Gardener's Monthly she said she 

 thought I was writing the Garden^er's Monthly 

 itself; so I hasten to stop. Print what you 

 please and no more — or none. 



needs but little attention at any time. 



In answer to the second question I would say 

 that whilst steam pipes cannot be raised and 

 lowered at pleasure (far from it), steam heat can, 

 which I suppose is what is wanted. This might 

 be readily inferred, perhaps, from the first para- 

 graph. 



As to the hottest point, it can be made to be ' 

 hottest where you want it. ! 



The dwelling and all the other buildings for a 

 mile (or more) around can be heated by the \ ^ 



same boiler if you want to pay for it. No im- j^farechal Niel Rose that will give him the extra- 

 practicability about that usually. j ordinary yield of not less than five thousand 



Use the old boiler if it has the capacity. That | ^^^^^ ^^^jg winter ; at present there is no less than 



A MARECHAL NIEL ROSE. 



BY N. ROBERTSON, OTTAWA, CANADA. 



Thomas Elmitt, gardener here, has a 



is the question. But it might cost more to use 

 it in a well-constructed apparatus than another 

 would. 



Set the boiler wherever you want it. so far as 

 horizontal distance is concerned. Look out ver- 

 tically. It w^ould do in the greenhouse, as sug- 

 gested, if low enough. It could be built in with 

 brick and covered with sand, so as to keep the I 

 local temperature down. I do not advise this, as | 

 you cannot see what is happening to your 

 boiler. ' 



Pressures are carried, in my experience, up to 

 sixty pounds, guage pressure. There is no rea- 



one thousand on it at one time. There seems 

 to be several varieties of this rose— this one 

 shows a much stronger constitution than any 

 other. I have seen cuttings taken from it and 

 grown alongside of others always show this ; it is 

 planted out in the end of his greenhouse, runs 

 along the rafters fifty feet. Can any one beat this 

 rose ? 



GLAZING AND PIPE-SETTING. 



BY R. L- BLAIR, DES MOINES, IOWA. 



A few weeks before the April number of the 

 son, but cost, that I know why they cannot be \ Gardener's Monthly arrived with Mr. Greer's 

 carried higher. This is not the direction in i shoit note on glazing, having occasion to put up 



and not 



Thi 

 which to look for economy though. The econ- ' some sash for a temporary purpose, 

 omy may be expected at just as low a pressure 1 wanting to wait for bedding the glass in putty, I 

 as the apparatus can be worked, say from two , concluded to tack them in loosely, end to end, 

 pounds to five pounds guage pressure. There! just as Mr. Greer did, only not putting any can- 

 was put in an apparatus, a few years ago, under dle-wick or anything else under the glass, and 

 my charge, that worked well under five pounds using the largest sized zinc points. One of these 

 and under sixty pounds. holds down the two corners where two panes 



The steam may be carried as many miles as i meet. After a drenching rain of forty-eight 

 you will need, if vou have rise and boiler capa- ' hours. I f<mnd these the tightest of the whole 



city enough. 



Now, while all this seems easy, and looks as if 

 one might readily have just what was wanted, I 

 wish to offer one word of caution. It isn't so 

 easy to any one not qualified to prepare the 

 necessary apparatus and erect it i 



range of sash, not a drop coming through any- 

 where. I am so well pleased with the plan, that 

 I propose taking out my loose glass (made so by 

 bad putty) this coming summer, and put them 

 in after the same manner. I can thus avoid over- 

 proper ' lapping, and get rid of unsightly strips of dirt 



