H O T IT O T 



pargeted, and white-washed; and all the. 1st. That " in every kind of temperature, if 

 wood-work within and without, painted white the works are to be erected new from the founda - 

 in oil colour. tion, few cases can occur in which they may 



Ranges of narrow shelves for pots of small not be so placed as that the whole heat required 

 plants may he erected where most convenient, may he obtained without occasioning the ex- 

 some hehiiul, over the Hues, a single range near penditure of -one shilling for fuel; hut in the 

 the top glasses towards the back part, supported most unfavourable cases that can occur, the ex- 

 either by brackets suspended from the cross bars penditure of fuel will not amount to one tenth 

 above, or by uprights erected on the parapet part of what is now universally employed for 

 wall of the bark-pit. A range or two of producing similar effects." 

 narrow ones may also be placed occasionally 2d. That " in a Vinery, for example, where 

 along both ends above the Hues. the grapes are not meant to be forced farther 



In wide Houses, where the cross-bars or than to ripen from the middle of June to the 

 bearers of the sloping or top glass sashes appear end of July, as the season may be, no fuel will 

 to want support, some neat uprights, either of in any case be required, the whole effect being 

 wood or iron, may be erected upon the bark- produced by the heat of the sun alone." 

 bed walling, at convenient distances, and high 3d. That " where the grapes are to ripen in 

 enough to reach the bearers above. April or May, some artificial heat will be want- 



On the outside behind should be erected a ed; but the quantity of fuel, even in this case, 

 close shed the whole length, or at least a small will be so inconsiderable, that in a house which 

 covered shed over each fire-place, with a door produces, on an average of years, under ordi- 

 to shut, for the convenience of attending the nary good management, not less than ten 

 fires; but the former is much the best, as it will thousand full-sized bunches of grapes, and fif- 

 serve to defend the back of the Houses from the teen hundred pots of strawberries, or other such 

 outward air, and to stow fuel for the general use plants, the consumption of fuel will not exceed 

 of them, also for garden-tools, and all garden half a London chaldron of coals ; and so in pro- 

 utensils when not in use, to preserve them from portion for those of larger extent." 

 the weather; as well as to lay portions of 4th. That " in the Pinery and Stove the ex- 

 earth in occasionally, to have it dry, for parti- penditure of fuel will be diminished in a pro- 

 cular purposes in winter and early spring. portionate degree ; while, at the same time, the 



Sometimes Hot-houses are furnished with use of bark (or of steam, as a substitute for 

 top covers, to draw over the glass sashes occa- the heat of tan) will be entirely dispensed with; 

 sionally, in time of severe frosts and storms; which, in many situations, will be the saving 

 and sometimes by slight sliding shutters, fitted of much expense." 



to the width of the separate sashes; but these 5th. That " these savings of expenditure 

 *re inconvenient, and require considerable time will be effected not only without any detriment 

 and trouble in their application. At other to the pines and other plants, hut with great ad- 

 times they are formed bv painted canvass, on vautage to them all ; for, in consequence of 

 long poles or rollers, fixed lengthways along these improvements, those diseases which so 

 the tops of the Houses, just above the upper much weaken and often destroy the most valu- 

 ends of the top sashes, which, by means of lines able plants, the damp in particular, will be en- 

 and pulleys, are readily let down and rolled up. tirely removed, and vermin in a great measure 

 In the annexed plate is contained the front annihilated ; theplants too, in consequenccof the 

 elevation and ground plan of an improved ventilation that may be at all times given them 

 House of this sort, which has been found to at pleasure to any degree that shall be thought 

 answer well in practice. proper (without varying the temperature from 



Fig. 1. Front elevation. that degree which maybe deemed most salutary 



Fig. <2. Ground plan. to the plants, at the same time that it may be 



Fig. 3. Section. changed at will from moist to dry, or the rc- 



A plan for another kind of improved Hot- verse), may be kept in a stale of perpetual 

 house has been suggested by Dr. James An- health and luxuriance that has been hitherto 

 derson, for which he has taken out a patent, unknown in these repositories." And, 

 It produces its effects chiefly by the heat of the 6th. That " all these effects will be produced 

 sun, without the aid of flues, tan-bark, or by such a simple apparatus, and that so adapted 

 steam. This improvement extends to every as to moderate of itself extremes of every sort, 

 sort of Hot-house; and the advantages of that it will become a matter of much less nicety 

 such Hot-houses are, according to the state- and trouble to the gardener than at present ; as 

 nient of the doctor, he may safely be absent for a much longer lime, 



