The Canadian Horticulturist. 



HEATING WITH KEROSENE LAMPS. 



^^^j^pl CORRESPONDENT of American Gardening has furnished that 

 journal with the following plan and description of his greenhouse, 

 heated with kerosene lamps, which is so concise and easily 

 understood that all who desire can readily plan and heat a 

 house on his system. In all respects the diagram faithfully 

 represents one side of the original house on this system, and is 

 drawn to a scale of one-quarter inch to one foot. The pipes are supported by 

 the woodwork at the partition, and at three other points. 



The boiler is attached to the pipes by two unions, as shown, and being 

 very light and holding but little water, requires no other support. The shaded 

 portion shows the space occupied by the water in the boiler. The boiler is 

 shown in sections, its form being circular. Water is poured in at the " filler " 

 shown. The expansion pipe is a safeguard against trouble from steam forming 

 in the boiler, but in the original house that has never occurred and is not 

 likely to. 



Boiler is made of tin. By unscrewing the unions the water runs out and 

 the boiler is taken off. It can, after drying, be painted inside by pouring in 

 thin paint and rolling it about until the paint has touched every point. In this 

 way the tin boiler has been preserved two years, and may last much longer, but 

 copper would be better. 



Fit;. 712. — C. G. AxKiNsi System of Heating with Keroskxe Lamps. 



The " jacket " is, like the boiler, supported by the pipes. A short pipe is 

 soldered into the boiler for the flow, and another for the return, and these reach 

 out through the jacket and engage the unions. 



The lamps stand on a table (T), which is just large enough to hold four 

 lamps. The table has one leg under its center, which slides down into a hollow 

 post, so that the lamps can be raised and lowered about six inches, great facili- 

 tating the work of caring for them. In the drawing the lamps are shown in 



