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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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the whole will get well mixed and exposed to the influence 
the frost. Peat-soil is generally found naturally well 
mixed with fine white sand ; but where this is not the case, 
ity should be added to the soil before it i | 
a small q J d 
As the young plants grow and fill the pots with roots, 
they will require to be shifted into pots of a larger 
size. o not know any better rule than to follow the 
different sizes of the pots commonly made in the potteries, 
from “ thumbs’’ downwards to those of a larger size. Thus 
they g a4: g W: g ra tp pee | in * thumbs,” 
then in 60s, then 48s, and so on. At every shifting the 
neck of the plant ought to be kept a little higher than the 
i Mr. McNab’s 
worms kept out of the ot bear their roots 
being cut or destroyed, particularly after the plants attain 
a certain age is is no doubt one of the reasons why so 
The shifting may be t any sea inte 
but this must be regulated in a great degree by the state of 
the plants 0 ere 
er 
autumn. T 
ese plants is of the 
greatest consequence 
S use 
in keeping them in a high state 
| health 
re | know several kinds of spring-water which de. 
stroy Heaths in a very short time. Wherever such 
springs exist, rain or river water s 
<5 
m over-wate 
ng; b 
the plants are sure to suffer if the ball is allowed to get too 
dry, and hence the great use of small pieces of freestone 
recommende Mr Nab. winter season, 
will injury, 
sooner than dry. requent syringing is also grea 
use in fine weather ; but this must never be done when the 
plants are likely to suffer from damp, or when the weather 
is cold and fr princi i 
nd form 
8 
ering season is past, or when the plant is 
ng freely, and before it has begun to form its 
r-buds 
As this paper is longer than I intended, I will 
reserve for another remarks upon the, construction 
and management of the Heathery.—a, e, i. 
after the flow 
growi 
flowe 
rather 
some 
DESCRIPTION OF AN ICE-HOUSE AND FRUIT-ROOM COMBINED. 
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Ce 
ye 
THe annexed figure represents the ground-plan an 
Section of an ice-house and fruit-room combined. 
the ice-house with 
2, an endless 
end of the bowling : 
-green, should be convexly circu- 
lar outward, and if practicable should have a jet-d’eau, 
upon when breaking and spearing 
 ecieel 
an opening is made in 
adjoining the stone flooring, 8, and increased in @ 
diagonal line to the far corner on the opposite side, in 
hich forms may be placed for the workmen, to stand | _ 
T'wo men stand at the corner and drag the ice 
the ice along to the 
aren | 
on the flooring; two others with mallets break the ice into 
another 
pan. The door, 9, being shut, and a 
layer of reeds, wheat-straw, or laths, laid against it to 
P from adhering to it, the house ma 
The ice may then have an extra breaking, and the remain- 
ing part of the house be packed full. The hole should then 
a. 1} _ 24%. 4 } hL 30: . in thick- 
ness; the space between this and the 
which should be of stone, should 
by means of 
to have 
necessary any material between 
the walls and the ice, strips of lath will be found the best. 
would not even put straw between the two doors in the 
passage, but would, if space allowed, substitute i 
doo The d i 
h 
ea 
i) 
ight be made nearly 
lieve is the cause of so 
e speedy dissolution of ice. 
the person sent i 
pened wry, shut himself 
and pail in; the opened, and 
should fold in the middle, so as to occupy little space 
in opening ; the third door may _ outwards, and to the 
reverse side of the second, and be shut on entering the 
house ; is means very little air will be admitted on 
entering, and far less on returning, and every sort of litter 
being done away with, there will be little danger of car- 
bonic acid gas accumulating inside the house. In the 
above plan there may be a door at the foot of the stairs, 
and two others on entering, through the wall. The inner 
circular vents with glass tops, 
11, that may be opened and shut with cords and pulleys ; 
ve of these vents may be sufficien ight the passage, 
12, of the fruit-room all round. he 13, should 
be suppo on cast-iron pillars; they may be made of 
stone, slate, or zinc, either material in my opinion being 
ood, both for durability and for keeping 
preferable to w 
the fruit cool and plump. The fruit-room is 12 feet high, 
8 feet wide, and ins about 3540 square feet of shelf- 
ing. he shelves is 3 feet wide. 
The height of the ice-house is 20 feet from top to bettom, 
and 11 feet diameter at ing of the arched roof. 14 
is a layer of coal or gas tar, mixed up with sand to pre- 
vent the wet getting down to the building. e swan- 
ecked pipe will,exclude the air fi 
always stand full of water. The drain below the passage 
of the fruit-room prevent in the 
floo Heated | be back 
of the fire-places, 15, into the vacuity in the fruit-room 
wall, and may into interior of room, 
by turning valves, in the inner wall. 
é i So 
ee 3 «1 ra , ee 
little air, heat. 
inclining to a damp state rather than dry is essential. The 
air-pipes of course will be useful in extraordinary cases. 
The room 4, on the left-hand side of the passage to the 
fruit-room and ice-house, is intended for the ac 
the constant 
the rooms 4, 4, 
bank of 
+ 
- 
of ; dessert sitting rooms, 
contain chairs, a table, and strong press of the bowls, curl- 
ing-stones, : room on the right hand ig for pre- 
paring the in, and for keeping and ripening some 
the finer sorts of French and Flemish Pears, and 
should be fitted up with and drawers for seeds, &c. 
Ice-houses are frequently in a very obscur > 
end sunk in th of a north sloping bank, under the 
shade of forest-trees, and often at a conside i 
from the hou garden, n passed at any | 
present attraction : , if built on the 
plan here i they may occupy a place at one side, or 
it for 
