BASE-BURNING WATER-HEATER. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 

 BASE-BURNING WATER-HEATER. 



For many years a great want has been felt for a better 

 means of h'eating greenhouses, or rather conservatories, 

 attached to dwellings. The space to be heated is usually 



Fig. 26. BASE-BtTKNEB. Fig. 27. SECTION. 



so small that the ordinary hot water boilers in use for 

 large greenhouses have been found by amateurs too compli- 

 cated, and to require too much attention. Then, when 

 the common smoke-flue was tried, corresponding difficul- 

 ties arose, it requiring nearly the same attention as the 



