140 Improvemetits m the Hot-house at Carr House. 



bondage of prescription, and to seek to acquire wisdom by 

 experience. 



Such a vehicle as your Magazine was much wanted ; as the 

 most obvious and important occurrences, if not communicated 

 and recorded while yet recent, soon become either obliterated 

 by time or obscured by tradition, and leave only a few mu- 

 tilated facts or unconnected fragments for the information of 

 the public. 



There are many improvements in this neighbourhood 

 which are worthy of record in your miscellany, but I shall 

 only call the attention of your readers to a hot-house recently 

 erected in the garden of George Cooke, Esq., Carr House, 

 near Doncaster, which exhibits the greatest improvement 

 hitherto made in hot-houses of this description. It is fitted 

 up for vines and pines, and is intended to answer the pur- 

 poses of two houses in one. It is furnished with hot-air 

 flues, and has ventilators in the back wall, which admit the 

 cold air without the sliding of the top sashes. It has a glass 

 partition the length of one side, which shuts up the house at 

 pleasure, in order to exclude the vines during their state of 

 dormancy from the action of the artificial heat. They are 

 thus left in a comfortable situation to take their natural repose, 

 until the time arrives for them to awake fully refreshed, and 

 to commence their labours in order to " bring forth fruit to 

 perfection." The partition is then removed, and the vines 

 are again admitted within the pale. As man cannot well 

 perform his work if deprived of his natural rest, no more 

 can " the generous vine." It is to be expected that vines 

 thus managed will be much more abundant in fruit. 



I may just notice that over the furnace is placed a boiler, 

 with a steam-pipe which is conducted most eligibly through 

 the building, and three stop-cocks to admit steam into the 

 house at pleasure. 



Tlie whole certainly embraces ingenuity of design, economy, 

 utility, and convenience, and reflects much credit on the 

 gardener at Carr House, Mr. James Stephenson, under whose 

 directions the whole has been completed. 



Hoping that ere long some one more able will give you a 

 more particular descrijition of these improvements, 



I am, Sir, &c. 



Doncaster, Jan. 14. 1829. Q. 



