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NEW AND RARE FLANTS. 



is quite horizontal as far as the hack wall, and only projects ten 

 inches from the top of the house ; the draught is good notwithstand- 

 ing. The chimney is of round tiles (used for draining) which fit one 

 within the other. As to not heating the house sufficiently, the only 

 difficulty I had was to keep the house sufficiently cool ; besides, the 

 stove can be made of any size. I afterwards, as an experiment, made 

 a bark bed round it, through which the heat spread equally. The 

 consumpton of fuel is small, and the small cinders riddled out of 

 ashes suit best ; the expense of building and materials does not ex- 

 ceed 20s. or 2bs. If further particulars are required I will give them 

 with pleasure. 



I 



®om 



A. Cast iron top. 



B. Fire place. 



C. Door with frame for supplying 



fuel. 



D. Door with valves and ash-hole. 



E. Chimney. 



F. Open space. 



G. Ash-hole. 



II. The regulating valve. 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



t'liOM PERIODICALS. 



1. Odontogi.ossum macu latum. — Yellow and brown. Orchidese. Gynandria 

 Monandria. (Bot. Reg. 30.) Imported by George Barker, Esq., of Springfield, 

 and has bloomed in the rich collection of that gentleman. The plant has much 

 the habit and appearance of anOncidium. The sepals are green outside, and of 

 an olive colour within. The petals are of a fine golden yellow, spotted and 

 marked with a blood colour. The flowers are produced on a pendant racemes, 

 each blossom being about three inches across. It is a very interesting and 

 beautiful flowering species. 



2. Soi.anlm crispum, Wavy Solanum. (Bot. Mag. 3793.) Solaneae. Pent- 

 andria Monogynia. A native of Chilis and proves to be quite hardy in this 

 country. A plant has been growing at the seat of James Hunter, Esq., in 

 Argyleshire, trained in the open air to a south aspected wall, where it stood the 



