General Notices. 



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I therefore beg leave to send you the enclosed sketch {Jig. 107.), the whole 

 glazing of which is intended to be of metal, with the walls of stucco or 



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stone. lam, Sir, yours, &c. — IVm. Mason, jun, Xeston HallySwaffhamy 

 Norfolk, Aug., 1829. 



A Seed Cloth for drying Lettuce and other light Seeds. (Jig. 108.) — The 

 cloth may be of any size, but one 3 ft. or 4 ft. wide and 10 ft. or 12 ft. long 



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will be found most convenient where there is a great number of different 

 seeds to be dried. Sew the edges of the cloth to a cord on all the four 

 sides, and in each angle introduce a loop or a ring (a). For every cloth 

 have four pins (6), pointed at one end that they may enter easily into the 

 ground, with a cross piece about a foot from the upper end to prevent 

 them from going in too far, and from leaning too much to one side by the 

 tension of the cloth, and with a hook near the top on which to hang the 

 ring or loop. — E. R. Brentford, Jan. 1830. 



Appli/iiig the Waste Heat of Domestic Fires to the Fur^wses of Floriculture 

 and Horticulture. — Sir, As so much has been said about heating with 

 water, perhaps you will excuse me thus troubling you with the description 

 of an advantage we have made of the workmen's sitting-room fire : for on 

 the same principle, every sitting-room and kitchen firein cottages or country 

 residences may be made to heat a green-house, conservatory, peach-house, 

 or grapery, or even the spacious balconies on the palaces in the parish of 

 St. Peter's, Pimlico, which, if they had sashes to shift off and on, might 

 be heated with the sitting-room fire, and thus made eligible places for the 

 cultivation and preservation of plants. In farm-houses the principle will 

 apply to great advantage, as both the parlour and kitchen fires may be 



