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Che Gardeners’ Chronicie, 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1842, 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOL LOWING Wages, 
Horticultural. . . 7... M. 
Tuesday, Noy.1., + 4 Floricultural . pst Aha 
De Re hae es 8 Pp, M, 
Wednesday, Nov.2+ . . Geological. . [9] ] { BLP. M, 
Saturday, Noy.19 . .. Re eyal Botanic . 332 
~ We have lately become arguninten — a oe 
apparatus. which, for its novelty 
some special notice. 
, according to 
d with it, it has 
n hour 
ature se ie “The fire 
req uires attains. 10 about on ie in eight or om hours, 
a constant high temperature is wanted ; fl 
eg anct many planted late in the autumn continued 
and fiower, ah the temperature was hardly 
ever allowed to exceed 4 Thi not vary with 
e outer air, unless it was ‘that the heat was greater 
within the house, from the extreme Teh at cold air to 
When a south wind ace sont any 
the warmth 1 came 
or porth- a 
col 
gre: ak: measure regulated i 
e been erected ; one in 
1 
ve nservatory the feeling and freshness of an 
pil or May day abroac 1. Theair near the regulators 
a 
tifici 
e hot air disperses so instantly all ove 
, that a thermometer, hung pug y facing 
ve 120° 
he house, 50 re ag growing on 
e trellis, within three fee in any way 
or affected by the at ig linge grew a 
little more Migs those ae ther F and are particularly 
S pre- 
veuale > a was a_ hot-water Cee which 
dred pounds, and which was not 
able to elevate the temperature of the hou e 
dd e the ext air. Now 
Same ace that u ang st h 
wre y efective, and ma’ haps account for 
a little warmth eulogy, Neverthel e 
every slnwerice on this score, there is nT 
that We fe | 
Ww 
der ve ogy! a onal YBa 
ube che Sa eat én in 
clear and san aig sear 
wf eens of 
ong the variety thus offered, there 
will be at least the cin aks of selecting that 
tsuits the purse or the locality, or, perhaps, t 
prejudices of the party; and there can be little doubt 
that the apparatus: now to be explained has the 
et merit of being i A Serca in the first 
instance 
The annexed engraving shows a section across the 
furnace, ae which the Cnaapie- are 
above the ash-pit A. On each side of the furnace is a 
large chamber, contained within the doohle walls BB; 
which chambers are divided horizontally by a series of 
in dia 
so as to keep them 
quite op Th are also arran to leave a 
space pen & w se right and left, thus forming a 
zig-zag passage for the flame an hich, afier 
sever the gs le of the bent and coming in 
contact with the outside of all the tubes, as show by 
the dotted arrows, tos tate € mair es FF. 
The fae t 
d 
e that there is a cold-air chamber 
dia Ppa ig a amber within, to- 
to facilitate and 
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The ends of the pipes pric fs by fire-bricks 
cut oo ee Rig n the manner. , below 
represe 
é samme in the inside of the house, 
the isd air is admitted, are as th B; 
feceoocte q fee 
The external a appearance of the stokehole, &c., is 
below ; E E being the chimneys; U, doors for fied 
The 
which 
Soomeeaae 
E 
the soot 
order to enable the 
N 
- | unfavourable to the former, as regards 
eyes of which steam is 
tions, tes tbink thatany ype 
pee et could ha the whole affair ; 
hope we shall hear of fi experiments. ‘The Puts 
nace and a ath a may immediately in the 
wall o house, or a little without; the 
stoke-hole may, of course, erior, as well with 
which left on our minds an impression 
and the i imitation of natural climates. 
Nn so gra- 
cated to us, and shall eg much 
ciously communi 
pleasure in reco cdg the results of the ensuing 
winter's experien 
o much has of late years been written about the 
quality of our — Oaks that the subject — seem 
exhausted. T s, however, one point of view that 
s been s sinialle. peice. All evidence tele, we 
think, to at, bi ~ general, the  sessile- 
fruited Oak grow ual circumstances, about 
one pie ae than a the tal Hale species, and that 
the timber of the 
the se 
of late vents been s0 muc 
But among Oaks, as among m 
Fda ati which, however healthy and robust their j 
rents, are sickly and blighted ; so 
former proc offspring, they 
are rickety and aly like thej pe ars the latter will 
¢ tha an themselves, 
course, therefore, of the Oak. A sickly ses. 
or ield Acorns producing seedlings 
ion e general run 
d “gd, a very vigorous 
os Pile 
Tankards, 
Planters 
ae to no conclusion as to whether their prac 
is wrong or right. No di f the stunted yo 
Oaks to be found in all error some are rend 
so by the original mutil their roots ; but 
others, and they by er number, may be 
reasonably supposed to be constitutionally tad. “The 
best way to proceed in all such cases is to cut them 
down to the ground; then, if they shoot up vigor- 
ously, they will soon form handso ome i 3 on the 
contrary, they soutemue stunted, they will 
by choking up better 
We have been | 
