28 REMARKS ON THE CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE. 



whose creative power the temple of nature is adorned with manifold 

 traits of wisdom, grandeur, and design. What stars are to the firma- 

 ment of heaven hy night, flowers are to the bosom of the earth by 

 day, gemming its verdant surface by the coruscations of their beauty, 

 blending their sweet and refreshing odours with the elements of 

 nature, mantling the kindred forms of vegetable structure as with a 

 garment of loveliness and perfection, and attesting, by the unap- 

 proachable perfection of their symmetry and design, the bright and 

 unchangeable attributes of omnipotence and love '. 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON THE CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE, &c. 



BV MR. JOSHUA MAJOR, LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL GARDENER, KNOSTHORl'E, 



NEAR LEEDS. 



The agriculturists as well as the horticulturists in the manufacturing 

 districts will be glad to learn that general efforts are being made, and 

 with every prospect of success, for the consumption of smoke, which 

 has hitherto been so injurious to vegetation. Among the many 

 valuable schemes now before the public, I may be permitted to 

 mention one which has come under my own observation, invented, 

 carried out with complete success, and now regularly employed by 

 Mr. Billingslcy, near Bradford, in Yorkshire. Some time ago, when 

 passing through Bradford in company with Mr. Baker, one of the 

 Factoiy Inspectors, my attention was directed to the engine-chimney 

 of the mill belonging to the gentleman above mentioned. There was 

 so little smoke proceeding from it, that I questioned whether the mill 

 were at work or not. I was, however, assured it was at work, and 

 moreover that I should never find more smoke emitted from the 

 engine-chimney than I then beheld, pass when I would ; the truth 

 of which statement I have since had frequent opportunities of proving 

 in passing. And the other day I had the pleasure of being intro- 

 duced to Mr. Billingsley by Mr. Baker, and he very kindly explained 

 to us the principle of his system of smoke-burning, the simplicity 

 and efficiency of which at once gratified and astonished me. The 

 apparatus is under perfect control, so that the chimney can at one 

 moment be made to pour out a dense column of smoke, and the next 

 to be quite free, the smoke being consumed. The plan, I believe, is 



