AND CONSERVATORY. 



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have nearly seventy feet of 

 piping, and, after the gas has 

 been lit an hour it is nice and 

 hot all round. The whole affair 

 can be made and fitted by any 

 gasfitter for a little over three 

 pounds, and I can only say, in 

 conclusion, that it works ad- 

 mirably, and the only trouble I 

 have met with is, to see that 

 the cistern is supplied with 

 water about once a week, and 

 to turn the gas on at night and 

 off again in the morning." 



There yet remains to be no- 

 ticed a few contrivances for 

 heating which cannot be pro- 

 perly ranked under any of the 

 foregoing heads. One of the 

 most important of these, for the 

 amateur who has but one or two 

 houses, is E-iddell's slow com- 

 bustion boiler, which consists of 

 furnace and water 

 jacket, construct- 

 ed of iron, and — — 



needing no brick- - ^ '^c ta 



setting, althongh, 



in common with 

 all other boilers, 

 it should be sheltered from the 

 weather by means of a shed, or 

 in one end of the plant house 

 screened off from the rest. This 

 is a very economical boiler, 

 quick and powerful, and well 

 adapted for pipes of small bore. 

 It is manufactured by Messrs. 

 Eiddell, 155, Cheapside. 



Carter's Portable Apparatus 

 has been found economical and 

 trustworthy for the heating of 

 small houses. It consists of 





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