CHAPTER III. 
ARTIFICIAL, HEAT AND APPARATUS. 
Im the first stages of civilization, man was contented to 
eat the fruits of the earth as nature produced them in 
each division of climate, or separate locality, but as luxury 
crept in, he began to wish for those of more favored climes 
than the one in which he, in many cases, happened to be 
placed. His earlier peregrinations into more southern 
countries enabled him to see the splendor of tropical 
flowers, and taste the luscious fruits which there abound, 
and to enable him to enjoy these desirable additions at his 
own home, it became necessary to imitate as near as 
could be done, the climate from whence they came; and 
_ to use artificial heat, which 
extent, 
and so the thing has progressed from the half-glass, half- 
slate building, with clumsy stone or brick flue, to the 
Crystal Palace, and the elegantly modelled and scientific 
hot-water apparatus, until, even in most inhospitable 
regions, the fiuits and flowers of the torrid zone are pro: 
duced in equal, and sometimes superior quality, to that 
__ which is found in the places to which they are indigenous ; 
SS _ besides which, skill has so far triumphed, that by a judi- 
cious application, or withholding of the artificial caloric, a 
SS the desires of th» 
: mind. 
