THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



APRIL, 1850. 



ORIGINAL COiMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Pohnaise Method of Heating Greenhouses and 

 Hothouses. By R. B. Leuchaks, Clifton Gardens, near 

 Baltimore. 



Among the many subjects connected with gardening, that 

 are hobby-horse like, ridden to death by theorists, amateurs 

 and practicals, it is somewhat astonishing that the heating of 

 hothouses, — a subject more prolific of controversy and dis- 

 cussion than any other connected with exotic horticulture,^ — 

 scarcely ever finds a corner in any periodical in the country. 

 Hothouses are every where being erected ; hundreds of indi- 

 viduals are seeking information every where, how to heat 

 them most economically and efficiently, but not succeeding 

 in their endeavors to obtain the requisite knowledge, they 

 send for the tradesman in the neighborhood, who has been 

 in the habit of doing this kind of work, who probably never 

 saw a hothouse in his life, and knows as little about heating 

 one properly, as he does about the practical details of Horti- 

 cultural Science. However, he has fitted up stoves of various 

 patterns, — warmed churches, public buildings, (fee, and of 

 course, he knows all about the matter ; a matter which, I 

 may add, has put the most eminent practical and scientific 

 men to their wits' end for the last few years in England. 

 Nevertheless he knows all about it, — or what amounts to the 

 same thing, — he succeeds in making the employer believe 

 so. He accordingly recommends what he knows best about, 

 however unsuitable it may be to the place and purpose 



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