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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 0, 18 



Mr. Fortune, for 



t distant parts of the empire, and t 



Id-air drain was altered, and that an iron plat< 



supplied by Messrs. Burbidge and Healy split 

 1, however, of pulling down the stove a nev 



plate was obtained from other ironmongers and re 

 Our intelligent correspondent, "Thorngrovf.,' 



also found the iron plate inconvenient (see p. 718_ 

 d substituted a brick arch, which answers perfectly 

 The only other letter speakinir of inconvenient 

 the use of a Polonaise apparatus is one from Mr 



Ogle, the gardener at Eridge Castle, and which 



that in Mr. O.'s opinion Pol- 

 heating does not answer for eanv fbreiog ; 

 s facts do not warrant his conclusion. Mr. 

 Ogle says that he found Mr. Meek's plants looking 

 remarkably healthy and luxuriant ; " and although 

 j seems to have had a bad set of plates, and to 

 ive imperfectly managed his air-circulation, yet he 



i and plants 



anything look better," but then he adds that, 

 Ithough the health of his plants was perfect, yet in 

 very other respect he was disappointed. Why, w he 

 lore could he have expected t the object of the 



heating was to bring his plants into the highest 



attacked by 



>less, when lie dried it up, purposely, he ci 

 t and blamed his apparatus, bid it never oo 



me? AH systems of air heatin- require 

 ^stance of moisture artificially obtained ; this 



ver been mentioned it should have been thoui 

 rent gardener. Mr. Ogle also s 



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(1 > ttith-ateu : u.ir th< i, .xp'ained b;> .unrt 



:nt that "the circulation of air was not 



i he could wish ;" and that "he never co 



make it circulate to his satisfaction." Here ag* 



must permit us to say, he answers his own ooj 



,n. He should have secured ■ 



ssesour comprehension to understand why I 

 Ogle could not do the same thing at I,:.:,-: 

 rculation of the^air^U the w" ' ■ 



ginally did. They conclu: 



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