JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUEB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Match 15, 1877. 



the same time certain Termilion-ooloured skins, which too 

 plainly explained the thievish propensities of mother mouse. — 

 A Kentish Bee. 



GLAZING WITHOUT PUTTY. 



After feeing the article on this subject by a " Steward and 

 Gardener" I cannot resist the temptation to contribute my 

 experience on the subject of glazing without putty. My opinion 

 is that a " Steward and Gardener " is treading in the right 

 direction, and his nearly twenty years' experience ought to be 

 received as conclusive evidence that glass structures can be 

 made to exclude water partly without putty, and entirely without 

 it on the top side. I think the past was a favourable season 

 for trying whether any method of glazing will answer or not, 

 for the number of rainy days and depth of rainfall since last 

 September exceeds anything we have had in my recollection. 



Last autumn I erected a vinery DO feet long by 'J feet wide, 

 with the roof at an angle of 45° ; and as I am only a working 

 amateur and with limited means my study was for cheapness 

 and effectiveupsB, two points which I think I have obtained 



in 11 e method of glazing. But I go a little further than a 

 " Steward and Gakdeneii " — I have used no putty and no lap, 

 and if I could have commanded a wet season in order to try 

 whether my method of glazing would answer or not I could 

 not have been better accommodated than I have been during 

 the pai t four months ; yet scarcely a drop of water could I see 

 from the roof, and not one from the sfinares where they join. 

 And in furtherance of the object I have in view — namely, to 

 asfiot ill working amatenra liKe myself, through your journal, 

 who lile to follow my plan in glazing with lapless squares, I 

 send a section of my sashbar a, which is quite plain and can 

 be mare of any desired strength according to the size of the 

 vinoiy. My sashbaraare 3 inches by 2i, with squares 24 inches 

 by 14, 21-oz. glass, which are simply fastened down with four 

 wrought-iron sprigs (copper would be better) at the corners 

 of each square. The cap is nailed on with four 2-inch nails 

 with the heads left out a quarter of an inch, so that they can 

 easily be drawn and the cap taken off should a square get 

 broken and require renewing ; tht u it i-s only letting the squai-os 

 above the broken one slide gently down, putting the new square 

 in at the top, so that they may all fit close at the joints. 

 Other minor details in this method of glazing will easily be 

 seen by anyone who will give his attention to the subject. 



If I had another rocf to glaze the only thing I should alter 

 would be to have the f quares cut 1 inch out of square where 

 they join edge to edge, or, in other words, to have them cut 

 bevelwise (as per sketch ii), so that any condensation under- 

 neath the gloss or any oozing through the joints from the top 

 side would find its way to the side of the eashbar, and by 

 having no putiy underneath and with thn unevenufss of the 

 glass will allow the condensation to fall on to the level edge 



on which the glass rests and into the groove, and by having 

 the square cut as shown each side of the sashbar would get 

 its proper share of such condensation ; hut if the glass wag 

 cut with the bevels all one way, one groove on one side of the 

 sashbar would have to take all the water and the other side 

 none, which might not answer the purpose intended. 



This notice of glazing without putty originated from an 

 inquiry in your Journal of November 16th last year, signed 

 " D. P. B.," who asked "it you knew of any vineries glazed 

 with roof glass batted." 1 replied in your issue of Novem- 

 ber 30th that I could show a method of doing so from prac- 

 tical experience, after which I had many communications, 

 which I replied to privately, not wishing to figure in the 

 Journal at that time as an authority on the subject of glazing 

 without putty and no lap ; but since then a brick and tile 

 manufacturer in this neighbourhood has erected a large vinery 

 and glazed the roof after this plan, and it answers well, 

 although at an angle of about 35°. He has also brought out 

 a new kind of flooring brick for vineries and greenhouses which 

 can be walked upon perfectly dry, still in the indented pattern 

 a quantity of water will rest for evaporation. The floor has a 

 neat appearance, and no doubt when advertised this kind of 

 brick will make its way into most new erections. I am now 

 superintending the erection of a vinery 25 feet by 13 feet, with 

 the roof at an angle of 40° to be glazod with lapless squares 

 and no putty, knowing that putty does more harm than good, 

 especially on the top side of a sashbar. 



Your readers will perceive the bevtUed edge on which the 

 glass rests, which is all-important in assisting any condensa- 

 tion to fall into the groove, also taking care the cap does not 

 press hard upon the sprigs which keep the glass down. By 

 using say four coats of Carson's auticorroeive paint on the top 

 side of the sashbar before they are fixed there will be no fear 

 of any wet penetrating the wood, but as I began with the sub- 

 ject of cheapness I must conclude so. My bars had two coats 

 of gas tar and quicklime mixed to the consistency of thick 

 paint and laid on the top side before they were fixed, which I 

 have found in other work resists wet better than anything else. 

 Your readers must observe that I am no gardener, but having 

 a fancy for a vinery, and, like many other working amateurs 

 with limited means, had to study cheapness with effectiveness 

 — two things which I think I have obtained, and the few hints 

 I have given here on glazing may he a benefit to some amatenra 

 who feel a pleasure in doing the work themselves. — TnOMAS 

 Haedcastle, Vainer, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. 



DK. ERASMUS DARWIN. 



His baptismal name did not influence his mental convictions. 

 He was no Erasmus in Christianity, and so devoted himself too 

 exclusively to an acquaintance with second causes. He was a 

 native of Elton, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, where he was 

 born December 12th, 1731. After going through the usual school 

 education under the Rev. Mr. Burrows at the grammar school 

 at Chesterfield with credit, he was sent to St. John's College 

 at Cambridge. There he only continued until he took his 

 bachelor's degree in medicine, when he went to Edinburgh to 

 complete his studies, which being finished and having taken 

 the degree of doctor in medicine, a profession to which he was 

 always attached, he went to Lichfield and there commenced 

 his career of practice. Being sent for soon after his arrival to 

 Mr. Inglis, a gentleman of considerable fortune in the neigh- 

 bourhood who was ill with fever and in so dangerous a state 

 that the attending physician had given up the case as hopeless,| 

 the doctor had the good fortune to restore him to health, 

 This gave him so high a degree of reputation at Lichfield and 

 in the neighbouring towns and villages that his competitor, 

 who was before in considerable practice, finding himself 

 neglected and nearly deserted left the place. Dr. Darwin soon 

 after married Miss Howard, the daughter of a respectable 

 inhabitant of Lichfield, by which he strengthened his interest 

 in the place. By this lady he had three sons. In 1781, 

 having married a second wife, he removed to Derby, where he 

 continued to reside to the lime of his dtath, which happened 

 on Sunday the ISth of April, 1802, in tho seventieth year of 

 his age. Six children by his second lady, with their mother, 

 remained to lament their loss. 



The doctor was of an athletic make, was pitted with the 

 small pox, and he stammered much in his speech. He had 

 enjoyed an almost uninterrupted good state of health until 

 towards the conclusion of his life, which ho attributed, and 

 reasonably, to his temperate mode of living, particularly to his 



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