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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
es 27. 
has mthch less er Ad: see a ee Dee 
ee eaten 
to be when it is of a oat 
; Nor ms is as that of 
With these arks we commend the 
a to pe scone wy her Majesty's dutiful 
found a letter from api 
to be observed i 
oa at 
ON THE PRODUCTION, "DISTRIBUTION, AND 
PRESERVATION OF HEAT, WITH F 
ENCE PARTICULARLY TO THE IMITATION 
is country, yet one of the most satis r b 
| fectory é asa Sisk that ae possess. After going through | ¢ b of radiant heat a a ‘ral, and of sore 
we shall notice, in succession, the ob i t to th 
> fog ‘Wharton, Addison, Gra ir W. pont effects such as _have never been obtai 4 Pa a. 
Chambers, Mason, rer Payne Knight, Dugald p which I think the eben of 
Alison, -Repton, Sir Walter Scott, some few other | colttvators might be well direc ited = ; to determine, namely 
writer rs, English and Foreign who have ave "considered ques- | how. much may be done for -hardy, and perha even 4 
tender plants, independently of glazed houses. { 
expos 
REFER- } 
pest : x ot-water pipes as a daha 
tute for, or in ion to a a ed w all, as = fag 
more rapid radiation, | and the sup. 
pages Seve) “The ahjet which uni is __ OF CLIMATE IN CONSERVATORIES.—No. IV. ficiently deep for the objects in vie rib 
is no doubt prainew ortiry tablish a uni- Such a mode of cultivation would certainly more ¢ nearly 
formity of judgment regarding the properties of | warmed by water or otherwise, which t) hat can 
ists” flowers. ' The facilities — by railroads of presi yed for eoskivestotina the chances supe. 
inging together cultivators from of | to be. noticed. Mr. Penn’ 8 peniey consists, as we wee rior oe are hows oF thes echrenag Sensibility - many 
the se will greatly assist, and, we hee, entirely | 5 : Tels tells Gale this Sao@e Gf & ge 
esh air as i shall determine. The plan in| with the eesistance of temporary screens prevent 
iM li gation proposes to warm a cons werratory 0 or other build- oe in severe weather, protecting walls from 
Scie a uniformity of opinion ame vyscme and inds, would anquiel more artificial heat than is 
that object will be accomplished soo — perce — vious ly heated in a separate dante. and t parc fh a i where the closeness ig of 
oe ivy othe Conk which escapes to tl the open atmosphere ‘er as has per- itself a means of w this expense might be 
biting ther J Roce! J formed its Suty-e id et caval the cost of the in i and 
he thine Pastis i. Cox Cpr pene required thorough change of air or ventilation; a oe wk has = saving in the summer all the cost and trouble of cooling 
on Florists in Carnation y Penn’s arrange - 
are and well understood, and t are ‘sl ments, the peculiarities of ‘which consist in circ mlation ais 
i * . rather than ventilation. A giao ponte of heated ai The application of bottom-heat to an exposed border, 
stated in this Settee = bee ae esp a Pi. requires evidently a more constant t and difficult attention | with or without the assistance of a heated wall, is one of 
> e experiments which remains to be tried ; and whether 
properties of a fine flower, viz., perfect | lates within the een. subject yg! to such an in to some 
form, purity of and distinctness of ruarking.- mixture of fresh air as the leakage of the house o} tent dispei nosed with, the increas ing “convic of the 
We cannot discuss the merits of the Picotees exhibited | demand for pacihcattin may ii f these conditions ele of soil-heat leads me to pabenk the Plonng mode 
Z ical € ve tit mature noord satisfied, we Magaite in so far imitate | of supporting 1e earth ov re the = ity containing the 
” W of temperature. 
hes, 
and whether heavy or 
Petals ececks white, and petals | @ 
and act as disqualifi- 
can be no contro. 
d, 
sai be a ve b tpaie as has been 
y. shown, in fact of owing all their ac- 
heat to the air, instead ng acted 
wt 
by a relatively cool oe _ And even the. cs 
— would want | and ve entilating crowded hall o r theatre. In the latter 
h constitute a 
f rat ssc into places which are overfilled with living 
be inadmissible in a stand. bel cings, and of Tstich, therefore, the atmosphere is con 
et x; various 
of it. Wem mers nearly covers the earth, it ; does. not appear that any 
peste 1 advantage. wn ticular i if t 1 ¢ 
= by reqs | tion the hs which has just been exposed to similar in- | «+ youssoirs,” as occasionally practised, for the sake of light, 
~ perties of a good = hit owes we wot 3 teen a plantation to windward of it. There se ness, in ancient and mode ern meme we sho ald oe 
dered worthy of being placed i ia aa if they are are less | demand for ap air in a well-filled conservat foe devine Lge rthen Id be first formed 
than two inches. and a half in diameter. —— i xf boi mething like a garden. pot, ee a pi. and wi el 
beer without a hole in the bottom: might m best; t 
etic Cr instep Gath pao If this rpet ae dee of air be + 3 
of something we call i hea © improvement | question of “Horticaltare, still less is it to ibe shaves on | taining the circular Totton so as to render its sides - 
Lanpscare subject which, in this coun- | the score of expense d of course increasing the angle 
try, has alw: nom ee zie iat are Ans The | must be pal wi prop the el th eetoa wessels baked eho 
ieiy tarvele votaries in untries, adie given to ate Esco sath the latent heat praia way, mehe set ina small quan’ of cement, would form 
oar of fase 0 the theory has be fr birawahne te into the external atmosphere, will be an im- sacot nl eet saan fi prow bs ey ee 
and freee in England ; as, indeed, | ™ense addition to the loss which is sufficiently great, inde- of surface to 
has, bean the casd with regard to all s: ywise | Pendently of this consideration. Let it be 
Bae the fine arts, with an external tem} at 
Pich‘onet the first we intended to devote a portion of, 4” internal atmosphere at 60°. 
[ to some discussions on the principles of this. must be heated much above 60°, because 
been written, and a large | the t of all the cooling surfaces in the house, 
and unsatisfactory. ~ | all in ad to init 
tast | question. Now in ordinary h 
that we require is to supply 
z: Se b 
notion being megan from the effect of air passing ayridibers 
when air-heat in any form is empl 
Ale 
ef the ris 
Spe Ed ge hg iat | 
: mg, &e. 
like tsome tomdteatae subject, would 
se eimperieet, ‘ad the task is rend 
i 1 
€ the 3 
hs aol conditions. o the peeblem 
| perature of ae ts than 608; utterly losi 
every VO which 
some great Leviathan, like Capability Brown, stalkedover few tropic hes caimstica ties the heat is greatest near.the 
the land, st s pl -grounds of the | ™uning s and to tom ir native | that we atte rine sonatas for attending to - 
d I ds planted in old times, whilst | t€™ ; the stre To do | the the most minute points ol lance to or departure — 
prophetic eye ccugsees the fallen honours of fields | this effectually it would be requisite e y to warm | from nature. And a es is perhaps a0 extreme 
it ea hed ryo plantations, and dotted el 1} in each bagrige water as plan | refinement when compared with ractices' a8 purr 
ol agg misealted pieces of water; and when hill vessel in 24 hours ; the difference between which and “posely heating the air which nature keeps cool, and to | 
ale were ali keeping warm merely the contents of the tub will partly to chance the soil, ick i times reaches 
The garden quack Hand much iess power now- mars bu ut “arg aa ~— in warming by currents of heated mi of 150°, i t may be remarked that the 
still Yolen left to be done in order to strip The imagined case would, however, have no loss ent just proposed, in’ which er heat is in som 
him of is por odo eeniet: how far we may succeet pretithicd to that of hn the latent Kea earsed of in vapour, ; arm air and vapour © | 
is fo Sod seating ° Pes i | while it might have of imitating a condition of | sinuating Steal throcgh tonumerable interstices, and having 
best ith the s ws the water i ich mpeg naturally lived. a momney to sooo, would probably approach 85 bora 
aise it wil, Perio be most : e required conditions. 
and a at of o 
the dire 
con- } 
poteiaynstid | 
ag 
of bottou-heat, I would 
