OBSERVATIONS ON DR. ARNOTt's STOVE. 75 



ARTICLE IV. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF DR. ARNOTT'S STOVE, 

 &c, AS SUITED FOR HEATING A GREENHOUSE. 



BY Mil, J. H. FARRAND, BAZAAR, CLARE, SUFFOLK. 



Having derived many advantages from the perusal of thy Floricul- 

 tural Cabinet, and long been a subscriber, I regret that many of thy 

 correspondents omit subscribing their names, especially when com- 

 municating -what they declare to be their own experience ; such 

 omissions admit of doubt as to whether the motive of such is simply 

 to benefit the general interest of thy numerous subscribers. I allude 

 to such communications as are in the number for the present month 

 in reference to the use of Arnott's stove, at page 60 and 62. 



Without further remarks upon them, I proceed to give my own 

 experience for the last two years, simply as information. 



In my greenhouse, thirty feet long and eleven feet high, in the 

 middle of the brick floor I have a place dug out and bricked, ten feet 

 long, two feet deep, and two wide, with steps unto it. At the end 

 is placed a brick stove, upon the same principle as Dr. Arnott's, 

 similar to that mentioned in page 29 in last month's number, 

 (January,) with a cast iron top, sixteen inches by twelve, and raised 

 on a level with the floor ; at the back a pipe is carried up through 

 the glass at the top. I mostly burn the cinders collected from the 

 fires in my dwelling-house ; but in severe frosty weather I consume 

 Welch coal, in order to keep a good fire through the night, which I 

 find quite sufficient; in the mornings, the two thermometers (one 

 placed at each end of the house) are at 40 degrees and higher. 

 Within eighteen inches of this stove are plants, various kinds, 

 oranges ripe, &c. ; and in the same house I keep birds, — a beautiful 

 lowry, a paroquet, canaries, &c, fearing no injury from the severest 

 frost, gases, or discomfiture of any kind ; and all my plants are in 

 a most healthy state. 



If the parties complaining of Arnott's stoves meet with such dis- 

 astrous consequences from them, it is because they do not manage 

 them as they are capable of being managed, or they are ill con- 

 structed. I have had one placed for the last two years in my shop, 

 which is fifty feet long, twenty-seven feet wide, and twelve feet 

 high ; it was made by G. Howard and Co., Old-street, London. Its 



