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than is accomplished with one room, hy the reflected and 

 radiated heat of the grate, — provided that lost heat were ap- 

 plied to a boiler of the kind above described. 



Second. A thorough and responsible mechanic is wanted, 

 who would make the constructing of gi-eenhouses and their 

 fixtures a speciality. He should be able at all times to fur- 

 nish such structures complete, of a suitable plan and given 

 size, for a specified sum. Should such an individual locate 

 here, and establish agencies at convenient points along the 

 chain of lakes and on the railroads in the interior, he would 

 command an extensive and remunerating patronage. Many 

 who are contemplating to build such establishments, are at 

 present deterred by the lack of facilities. 



Third. An encyclopedia on gardening is an important 

 desideratum throughout our country. Such a work should 

 embrace every department, and be minute and practical in the 

 details ; so full, indeed, that a person on turning to any par- 

 ticular head, Gesneria for instance, Avould be able to learn 

 everything appertaining to it. To be informed, under that 

 head, that it consists of ^^ thirty species arid tivo varieties; 

 stove-herhaceous perennials or evergreen shrubs; cuttings; 

 rich soil,^^ — which is the sum total furnished by Landreth's 

 edition of Johnson's Gardeners' Dictionary, is as satisfactory 

 to one of our Western florists as a Yauxhall slice would be to 

 a hungry man. That publication is so brief throughout that 

 it is of little practical value. 



Buist's Flower Garden Directory is the best hand-book 

 we can command, yet that work is liable to the same objec- 

 tion, though not to the same extent. Its worthy and excel- 

 lent author could not do a better work than to bequeath to 

 the American public a publication of the character now re- 

 quired. No one is better qualified for the undertaking. 



It was a leading principle with the father of infinitesimal 

 medicine, that ^^ what ivill cause a fever will cure a fever.^^ 

 Now, Mr. Editor, as you have had much to do in occasioning 

 this condition of things, we may consistently, with medical 

 transcendentalism, look also to you for the remedy. 



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