THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
partly or entirely filled with water so as to cover 
the flue, and it may be covered when the air is too damp 
by any kind of lid, or by a roll of coarse canvas. 
This would save a great deal of heat which is now 
wasted, and render unnecessary one tier of the pipes at 
east. 
[May 16, 
within 2inches of the boiler. It has no back to it or 
sides, and can be removed at pleasure. Projecting 
2 inches from it to the front are four iron ons 
zegt a couple of fire bricks on when the front is to be 
closed. 
b b bb, is the neck of the furnace ; it is 10 inches 
square: it is 16 inches from where the furnace begins 
to incline inwards, at each of its four faces; it is 
18 inches from the opening for the grate, and exactly 
24 inches from the floor of the grate (x), upon which 
the fuel rests ; below this there is the ash-pit, 6 inches, 
making 2 feet 6 inches, the lower portion of which for 
l4inches up is a square of 15 inches, from which it 
gradually diminishes at each of its four faces to 10 inches 
at its neck. The front line of this neck is about 
43 inches inside the feeding mouth at c. 
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think the Committee are right. Annual donations 
should be applied to annual relief, and not hoarded. 
Donations and casual receipts will form a fund quite 
large enough to fall back upon in time of difficulty. 
The following is a plan of a boiler intended purposely 
toremedy some of the defects I have named. Every 
particle of fuel burnt in it must give a return to the 
SELECT PLANTS FOR BEDDING OUT, &c. IN 
FLOWER-GARDENS. 
(Continued from page 301.) 
12. Phlox Drummondi formosa. (Wood's variety).— 
"This is by far the most beautiful variety that has yet 
been raised. It is a half-hardy annual, but only per- 
manently continued by cuttings, being liable to degene- 
rate from seed, growing from 6 to 12 inches in height 
I think “The Captain? will do a tenth more work 
than any boiler yet in use, or the same work at a tenth 
ess cost of fuel, which in large establishments will 
amount to hing iderable at the end of a 
It differs from all others now in use, not only in 
shape, but in principle. I now proceed to give the 
under proper management, requiring a cool 
g » 
with protection from frost in winter, and succeeding 
well in equal portions of friable yellow loam (or garden 
soil) and highly fermented leaf-mould, or manure, with 
the addition of a sixth part of white sand, producing a 
imensions of its several parts, These can, of course, 
e enlarged or diminished, to suit any size or range of 
buildings. The letters of reference are the same in 
succession of bright rosy crimson flowers from June 
until October. Though a plant of the easiest culture, 
a close attention is required to obtain an early vigorous 
growth, by shortening its leading shoots, and unless due 
caution is observed in raising a young stock from 
healthy plants, and restricting them from blooming, its 
excessive fertility soon renders its increase impractica- 
ble. It is invaluable for a small parterre or flower-bed, 
or for individual effect in borders. I have obtained a 
remarkably vigorous growth, and proportionate bloom, 
in this plant, by adding large flakes of dried manure to 
the soil in which it was planted. With these recom- 
mendations, it has often been a matter of surprise with 
me that we do not oftener meet with it in our gardens. 
13. Fuchsia pumila, or General Tom Thumb.—This 
is one of the best varieties for bédding, being neat, 
erect, and compact in habit, growing from 12 to 18 in. 
in height, and producing a profusion of rich crimson 
pendent blossoms, contrasting well with its small dark- 
green leaves, which give it the appearance of an eyer- 
green variety. 
14, Stachys inodora.—This is one of the best plants 
of its class, greatly superior to S. coccinea, and prefer- 
able to S. speciosa. It is a hardy perennial, but requir- 
ing in common with most other profuse blooming plants, 
an annual renewal by divisions, or by cuttings. It is 
readily trained to a neat and compact habit of growth, 
producing numerous spikes of rich flame-coloured 
flowers, from 9 inches to 2 feet in length, during August, 
September, and October. 
required, this is a valuable and interesting plant for 
large beds, or for single specimens in borders. 
15. Antirrhinum majus pictum (syn. “ Iveryanum”). 
—The merit of this genus for decoration is too generally 
known to require comment; but the picturesque cha- 
racter of this variety is worthy of special notice. 
gardens abound with a host of seminal varieties, 
amongst which we must admit A. splendens, Fowleii, 
luteum, Supreme, and several others, as exeeptions to the 
many inferior ones which claim an undeserved regard. 
The present one is much superior to all I have yet seen 
in its brilliantly-contrasted colours. 
There are, however, several inferior varieties. The 
subjectin question is distinguished by an ingly 
rich crimson ground colour, with the external part of 
the throat of a pure white. 
in height, and is easily cultivated in any soil. 
tinues long in bloom, and forms a very beautiful effect 
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each of the figures. 
a, is an opening for the grate and ash-pit, 
15 inches square by 12 inches high. movable iron 
grate (z) is placed inside of this space, the bottom or 
floor of which is just 6 inches from the bottom of the 
boiler. It stands on four legs (y), and it has two front 
bars, 2 inches apart, the highest of which comes to 
c c € c, the feeding mouth for putting in the fuel ; 
it is 15 inches broad, by 12 inches high, having a tight 
filling door, e e. 
d d, is the farther end of the boiler, and the com- 
mencement of the flue; it is 10 inches square, and 
24 inches from the back line of the neck of the fur- 
nace, b b. 
€ e e e, is the door drawing in and out, as shown 
in the plan ; it has its top and sides inclined, to fit the. 
Shape of the boiler completely when pushed in close. 
The lower line is horizontal. 
fis the blower, to regulate the 
draught. It is very simple, but 
may give place to a more scien- 
Fig. 1. 
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it would be quite as effectual in 
practice as any now in use, and 
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in large groups or beds, or as single sp s o 
genus of plants is perhaps equal in neatness of habit 
m Sand 
and brilliancy of colour to 
for adding a rich and ornamental effect. to the front of 
large shrubberies and borders. i i 
being a new plant. 
ears ago, but it has now nearly disappeared from our 
collections for more novel but not better kinds. 
of our newer varieties of plants remind me of Napo- 
leon's answer to an inferior officer, who in offering his 
services to reach an object to which the stature of the 
former was unequal, remarked, “Sire, allow me, I am 
a greater man than you.” “A taller, a taller,” replied 
the Emperor hastily, “not a greater,”— William Wood, 
Pine-apple Place. 
NEW BOILER FOR HORTICULTURAL 
PURPOSES. 
Avruovcu the Polmaise system can never supersede, 
in my opinion, a well-arranged hot-water apparatus, I 
am far from thinking that the latter has attained its 
greatest perfection. n 
some is uselessly expended on the surrounding walls 
and briek-work of a furnace, in all’ those boilers in 
which the fire is outside them ; and in every boiler yet 
in use that I have seen, an immense loss of heat takes 
place in the ash-pit, and a still greater loss up the 
chimney. 
planned and constructed badly, constantly a source 
of apnoyance, until at last 
discarded and voted a nuisance, 
is burnt to waste, 
were to cut off his finger or his hand because he had a 
sore on it, tt 
endeavour to find out a remedy for the evil. j 
they are frequently made, lose half their heat by being 
laced with one face next a wall and another face 
resting on the floor, leaving only the 
saces to throw off heat into the house. 
amallest of their defects. 
at their joints and g ving forth deleterious gases. 
all these and other faults may be remedied easily enough 
by having the flue of thin metal running in a trough an 
inch larger than it all round.“ The trough may be kept 
i; 
work, These pipes are both fixed tothe top of the | 
Where variety of effect is much more simple. 1t has four 
r holes g near its top, to hang on 
two hooks in the boiler ; by using 
either of these holes the space be- 
low for the admission of air to the 
under side of z is enlarged or 
Our diminished. 
h h, are the two fire bricks 
s which rest on the four brackets 
from 2, and should fill up the 
space exactly before the fire bars 
to the boiler j k. The flow pipe 
j is just over the furnace. k is 
the return pipe. 
These pipes, and also those pro- 
ceeding from them through the 
It grows from 1 to 2 feet houses, are square, 4 inches in dia- 
It con- meter, and will therefore expose 
a one-third more radiating surface 
T than round pipes of the same dia- 
d | e s | meter, and of course require one- 
third less piping to do the same 
A. pictum is far from Bene end 
I remember it being grown 14 Fi ^ 
Some Z Z r - 
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Much heat is still thrown away ; 
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Flues, also, are, in consequence of being £ zi 
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they are altogether j! J 
and thus fuel h h | | 
This is about as wise as ifa man VT TT AAA VAM 
q T T 
To me it appears a much better course to d y 
Flues, as | 
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They are constantly opening | s | 
ow, | 
Z is the commencement of the flue, 10 inches diameter 
i l ly difference being that the pipe y has To derive all the advantage of the fuel consumed, the 
Visite chet just ofa the source of heat ; | flue should always pass through one or all of the houses. 
‘the "advantage of being j 
