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21 848. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
8 
53 
— bere (Fellin $ 
THE pa — ( — ~ 
— cn 1 ve given 
— e “ 
— tin "ipl , 75 
the present 
fate ber 
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NG. 
905 4 T 
are hea 
whic 
— tisfac 
es (two year old — from 
ril. After 
ah beginning of A 
he — e to them, and by the end of 
top of the house, perform 
. beyon expectation; 
ee ted, well swelled, and 
n to top, w with plump eye 
n the stove everything goes my e 
eden; indeed, the odour = the foliage — 
volumes in favour of Polmais range of 
houses here is — * in 2 — is * into 
— com , Vinery, stove, and greer 
house, each be — 6 fee ot in breadth, 6 feet high 
iy aad 13 feet — 
rom two 
= 
at the back wall. The he — 
chambers, the size of the plate 
7 feet by 4 feet; the chamber used for the stove 
weng 7 f the gree — ouse when required. 
rick arches — stoves formed of large 
fre-bricks, | have no doubt ier will both answer 
itshould be borne in mind that brick is a slow conductor! 
| , is metal, 
the escapè of gas into: the 1 
pn se 
es by 14 inches 
a Fire-bri 
— 
Home Perret 
Cultural Observations on the Potato for 1848 — 
a ary subject to disease 
a late period of the 
alike affe eted. Hence, the 
5 e plan, 
n in — on “slight heat tice in April, 
1 them out finally ‘ open compart- 
at the end of Say, — in 2 * way we have 
obtained an 
sound e and | a sot Hd is t well u 
to the p i 8 hee We 7 5 ar frie 3 P 
4 depends on raising the 
time, also of obtaining ely selected 
red ately have 
t Season naea seedings 6 of 1846, 6, though “dimin- 
Size as a3 compared with those of 1847. In sho 
lg 
m the | 
gr to | crackin 
; but | mi 
of heat, and of course increase 9 tuel 
which perfeetly 
here the other day who has lately erecteu a stove heated 
on the Polmaise principle. I directly introduced him 
1 le was” perfectly s with the 
arrangement ; the temperature at the time was 96°, and 
the air — perfectly humid a — ‘weet, though no water 
of the 
—— 
effec w. air 
circulates well inside, the temperature of the house will pans use heated is 30 feet 
rise in a ratio ee eee with the fall of tempera- by — a 15 feet — 5 jäis highest k temperature it can 
ture outside; fi to has no — et been tested, but with ease 
freezing, the the mometer inside gradually began to 1305 —— obta The chamber measures 7 feet 
rise as the other “fell proving the statement just made | by 4, — above che fire is an arch of AAE put up 
to iae e the 3 in | with the view to equalise the expansion of the plate ; 
et 
open sunk to 25 hermometer inside the 
stove, at 10 0 remind at night, stood at 80°, 
mometer 1 in zai bi blast, at 170° 
that heat, grea was salubrious. 
thing as Proorehing 1 was sibs seen either in the stove or 
as sweet as 
and a ther- 
in 
n | factory for drying ae Seri of 5 the een pda ho 
wood will giv idea d he ne 
sumption of fuel b got Fagus bers of Pol 
n b 
ore than a half — than that by any other A cf | w 
hentia The plan is so si so efficient that 1 
have no doubt from one fire houses 
— 2 thick, Te a 4 in. beak eal riveted on the top; the m 
hou 
then passes through the 7 ren re ae pipe heated by the fi 
G. oer opening is left to trap any dust that may pass bri 5 bridge 1 in stirring 
a p 
e from their late tendency, aly. & 
victims to the prevailing epidemic.— Hardy 
t 13. he 
30 
It w for December 
ry | 5 inches, e is much above the average for that 
7 ikh y 
otted x 2 e in 1845, 35. 
6 
Gardening 
ro a wh 
ght be heated, by merely 3 valves in the drain to 
ve 
D 
REFERENCE TO PLAN. 
tal prevents the 
h over the fire, to pan the plate peer toS hot at 2 pa 
e after it has left the pla 1 
rogeny in various sporting varieties, consequent 
Maldon, Jan 
bigs Se any appeara 
Rai 
Potatoes sent are lee: —— 
arance of disease. 
— The 
has fallen at 1 in Fifeshire, 
following mont 
1847 
.. 1.50 August. 
70 September «. oe 
Octo 
eee Tota : 
seen iji the amount is 
total amou 
of former 
nt of rain for the year, however 
1844 we h 
is, perhaps, worth 
ce 130 feet above the | Forga 
Gardener, ek ee near Collinsburgh, gh, Fifeshire. 
nes 
* 
2 
under ordin 
N 2 
In No. 2, of this year, gly 
me that I have not yet close pruned my Vines ; th 
are But T. D.“ will sure 
season to hav: 
een exemption from shanking. 
what I have yet to do in 
eee as he did — T. W. 
Books.—The short days 
m the fire 
ea re is carried through cast-iron —— 
inside a flue, which communi the 
with 
cham ‘h two openings in the — 
chamber above the fire, 10 inches by 4, through whi 
fresh air en over the pla admitted into 
oe flue e the hot pipe is, and e the h 
ponas by b l the 3 
though for arras d purposes or air is desirable. The 
ater cistern may be put into the drain or flue, or any 
convenient part eu the ‘aac of the plate, but not on it, 
E, Openings to Amis the hot ae i the h 
H, Fire Bridge. is 
ly 
of them apn ee at wert t to amuse and 
of his 
0 
following is the amount of rain which 
uring the 
ma 
as it would be too hot.— John Deans, gr. to Wm. Pat- 
ae Esq., Felling Chemical Works, Newcastle- 
upon- T. 
eet iron warping, and in case — 1 cracks, of course the iron plate preveni 
D, Op — to admit the cold it 
> paan 3 inches thick. covering 
fal 2 al 2111 
instruct himself with the theory 
the a ee 5 ing ok = the 
year. 
“Th years back 
2 his knowledge by perusing pa pages of Mawe 
rcrombie, is now invited b — 
beer — ane on every departme 
Wee W ee ry the * 
in one 9 eac 
duction of Flora has 
have bee 
undance 
inconvenience Pi difficulty. 
ho roceeds to make a meal off a truss 
fore be made, and in doin; 
| pp hah naa 
and science, i 
may be guided by their decision. 
in the choice of . is, to pe pe 2 
treat on the iples, or the science 
gardening. Natu nro — works in way, the 
| previo ascertain the 
principles 
excellence in in 
is successful 
and diminished will 
them. A well-written book, explaining those 
