THE 
gr 
ts of a aie satin in pots. pe oe this pur- 
an ample variety may be a seed- 
lly 
to pursue in wre ing pots for 
annuals is this:—in the first place |} 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[N° 20 
There is no rustling in the lofty elm 
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade 
icarce cools its around 
tall 
Languidly in the oat at the thik turf, 
Yet vigor § from the kisses of the 
Retai: e fr iy repo and I an = ihe wind 
That still pe clare coming. Why so slow, 
Gentle and voluble spine of the air? 
2 come, and 1 m the fainting earth 
ness 
rm for ent to dwelling-houses, it may be 
Ea ‘that on sate Bred to pc do not 
apply to — and staircases, = rvoirs from which 
open 
s, and 
of temperatur and the eat is 
to the —, on any capil of the combustion —~ 
the heating of w 
peded by 
‘cxeessive sniomgeratere and Tequi re only a naiehe. 
@uce sur face. Let 
the fuel be consumed by. a rapid and intense aren 
by the size and distance of the boiler, always taking care care 
to receive the shape 
nd as little as 
abstracted. 
true solution of the problem 
the view 
rassfounder’s 
ort oO} m bu: het going on in 
nary boile jer-encompassed “fre-place, we shall . 
the pot to about one-third or one-half of its = of the chambers draw their supplies of sir, 
with wet moss p' Ty ein and over that put * fh 
: as t hal 
rich light soil, in which the annual seeds “4 to be yes _ pan oh ps ety of of the anon within 
sown, or young aS are to be pricked out. The the rooms, nor does it affect the quantity of esergearye ; 
t a then in a common bar aga the Tater i is | it merely substitutes a 
with water in wet w mane The to warm the apartment, but pcaa 
psn water peu ch the ra — = at of 9 open 
time it Payot moist eerie! in ‘which the | fire, a teens seoegeeent of thi t is s the 
Toots 0 
a plant. will ped 
perhaps 
A cold pa sg is, however, 
W 
evils of oe and they grow 1 av thes sume heal th, 
nted out 
ly better than none, and when we feel _dis- 
~ooniinening of the smelting furnace might not be a ap. 
pie ed to the boiler. The boilers of railway-engines = 
at excessively high pressures 
thei r fuel, though j iti 
ns impossible that so ors ‘of — a 
nw 
ng6 
in the is istribute 
those ny ea in the construction of grates by 
which economy in the > fuel has | been Pr romoted, we find 
open borde uch pots, can 
over ~ garden wh whercser a vacancy occurs, and w 
= eath trees and bushes, pata 
in the open ground itself. 
thus enforced upon apartments, which, occupied z as they 
are both day and night, i is quite essential. How much of 
such ml nd 
Their ate are emi covered ae their own lower 
branches, or may be concealed by the foliage of each 
other ; as pra as one is remedy it is removed, and 
succeeded by another in full beauty ; and by a little 
ant supply of sea-coal, the of = ch in the reign of 
Edward the First was forbidden, which for many 
years was comparatively scarce and seats it is aitieale be 
Fare careless spade af = escort Thee 
Point to observe is, that pot 
six inches in diameter, 
y this begin wi 
and & few billing worth of sels cach ear, will } We mai 
court round London in Sv 
for at hen nine months in the year. 
bse is no ideal scheme, but a mere statemen 
e practice 
ke of little gardens-near.town ; and we recommend 
to sod id Bk “earnest, without delay. 
Many annuals 
and oth 
| vatory,— 
x 
observed in one of the prettiest and thd 
farts 
say. pees ae has an ap mcg tendency to p 
mpellin| ng the po 
r. 
the sacrifice — bi ai 
ncient and mod 
lon, and betw and oh than the dierent 
applies of water and “drainage. The more wholesom 
cause of the diference 2 be tween 
ving then become so 
count a ts of | the peal y 
requii ire, in ih cers the same provisions as a — conser- 
—solar light, radiant heat, fresh air, good water, 
desionde: 
it now for granted that whatever may 
ion of a 
and perfec! 
5 be Na- 
ainly a. ethers. Yiot air, 
of pro- 
aki: ing 
"3 0 
way be evo! 
will prepare theneelves for “the first crop of flowers 
next spring. 
ON THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND 
PRESERVATION OF HEAT, WITH REFER 
SMES LY varied. 
owner of a kitchen range, fa fancying 
fire was idle, while the front was roasting his beef, has 
determined to reclaim the wasted coals. He forthwith 
places a boiler behind the grate, and takes a set of circu~ 
ec, PARTICULARLY TO THE Vo a 
VATOR 
ceeds vi ery indifferently as regards the library, but which 
ever this may be, certain thai 
es the close contact of the oe and the fuel is muta. 
ly prejudicial, and that the detention of the a and 
smoke in contact w 
e boiler naan means of circuitous 
\jurious. 
. bee gop usually paar - 
ore tha sy it. of the lower at 
sons to "oe seek seeliatio from the fi pair 
hore sacrificed | to the close contact of the. fire with | the 
d to 
ee circu Tn this espect the conical boiler 
of Mr. Rogers ae . “decided improvement, as it exposes 
the whole of its inner surfac f the 
fire, deem it, of burning its 
fuel within cold walls. 
In the annexed di endeavoured to 
iagram I have explain 
my: idea of efficient boiler-setting. The boiler in the 
figure may be considered either as a hemisphere or as a 
F CLIMATE IN CO mel ES.—No. V. | faiis not to arouse the indi 
. ignation of cook. 0 finds 
tr has as thee supposed thal a allusion is one of | the spit aoe the kettle robbed of half their dues. The | SS 
en 4 nd in France sa f pulmonary d fact is quantity of heat producible an rom a certain | semi-cylinder with the ends closed; presenting to the fir = 
ante and in one fe on the supposition pone ms coal is as limited as ake heat | z 
ber ‘close stoves por ere in the country generally used tangible material in nature, and e hic! 
pe ee Warming. Fr, as not the case a fire £ th ing aioe a at sacral leaves an fa 
pind eadig at chi =a the wood as exist In all those pent there’ re, where conserva- terrapted channel for the flame = — to play wpe 
ae senate Thelies ie oes pr torie shee e been sont ed partly by a bole wt Bags cosy = = i surface. The fire — — see hoges 
, ves are é 
exte sively employed, while the French mode of cooke water aod partly by | the fue heat from the e form: : ted that ev ery part m nt ida 
weg dorg Page vn bs = much more resem-| not have been as well or better obtained by 2 oe radiation, to so large and so fevvareble 6 of heat 
‘h sh. But putting these 
considerations aside, remembering se that many parts 
of France have a climate which, in rence to disorders 
not 
alone a a well-set boiler. 
ther 
reduced by distenes Bhs that — of ssteaty agai is 
_ The error consis sts in (supposing heat to be 
Ned 
of the lungs ht b it is somewha 
markable, if true, that the aggregate oe of such ‘dis. 
population. 
than in England. 
Well-authenticated os of this sort from German 
a, would be v very v. Shas . 
before 
i 
@ rigours of an arctic a ap ‘preferable csnonue goer 
heat of stove-warmed dw ellings reasonal able, = qr 
+ PD tar OE 
+h, 
di ngs of those wie = 2 quit. 
ree Poon atmosphere. I 
that part of the difficulty experienced i in 
ic animals has resulted from exposing them 
sg air, ake that the list of pomaeadaten 
teduced by giving them, under r 
radiant heat of open fires, an id th Ppt caioy- 
losphere more nearly resembling th ol 
Hic sa branches of their melon 
lowing ae un. to the summer wind, by a de- 
tvedly popu r poet "Of J the country in : which 
He phiicample appears. to have been most sac- 
cessfully aye ag will furnish some idea of th the sufferings | 
inflicted o ‘sa denizens of the forest by penning 
sir-heated c 
It 
The d 
ti 
wi 
id 
ne 
sr 
A 
+ sora day; the sun has 
its evolution, it is ee tas 
ever. an the desire feequcate manifes te d to 
surround it with boiler rs, to mak m the furna 
to little boilers ; all which is, I pittsa, not me 
and differen 
coniton mys their: success. € a of heat 
one = engin erence is agra If I 
wri setting a boiler in le 
the style of the 
rane aM Ts. ees should begin “‘ First catch aoe 
heat ;’” then, inasmuch as heat may be for ~~ I know 
cela 
erely 
less but injurious, because it confounds two an Ara | 
which require differe 
tion by the water, will I 
believe, a very tam po ortion of the effective power of the 
fuel, which, may be of any de- 
scription, and may be burnt subject to the most 
control. The dotted arrows show the probable coeasiat 
e fh us products, the heating powe 
which must be ersgonry exhausted by the whole come 
surface and of Fhe! arched’ vault in 
is contained : their esa pe w of course, be ited 
usual by a 2 flue 
B. feel conlideat, how however, that the heat ere 
the fuel itself, provided 
whe from the radiation of 
sod ay- Bad combustion she fae mer 
radiation have fair 
place a boiler in such a position as not ‘ 
Sink 
act of combustion by which the heat is fof gare ae. of do abealy oper ing power es 
g i possible quantity of the heat the ri — wasting a ocoligioke quantity of ful i rs 
it cam escape into the chimney. It may be as arr hyphcre t, becomes cleared, the heating p 
sumed. that there are but two modes in which hea pts 
once created can be lost: the first is by its absorption | of "7iilies surface exposed to it, and a repellent ca 
into matter, either solid, liquid, ous; and th sues between the overheated iro nm and the water, bases 
cond_is by radiation into spac may be equall Seiad ta 
assumed, therefore, that heat generated at the surface of | in the red-hot capsule. Thus in a boiler-surroun ent 
the earth might be applied unimpaired to a boiler at the nace every part of the process is bad. - There is firs' of 
a - —* toner, provided the walls a "ly pi and consequently a small portion 0 a 
were msneHg This coe be, perhaps, heat,—rendered menscraerenn J still smaller by the ak 
; but oo can be little 7 that my two smoke between t tpheytors infeed forthe at = sa 
co! too good 
aeaayysgeat on greater part of lin: kek whales Sak in| Seine of tx paleo epia aa 
ew that lay upon the socal grass; 
