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Kewley's regulating thermometer, to lower a sluice or valve to the cold-air 

 funnels whenever the temperature in the hot-air funnel fell below 55°. We 

 have suggested to Mi*. Cottam, how very easily this might be done. 



Since writing the above, we have seen Mr. Cottam, who has described to 

 us a mode which he has most successfully adopted, in a large mansion, of 

 heating air by hot water, and which appears to us to possess two important 

 advantages over even the improvement of Messrs. White and Veitch ; those 

 of costing less at first erection, and of requiring less fuel afterwards. It 

 seems to us that Mr. Cottam's improvement only requires the introduction 

 of a regulating thermometer, to render it by far the most perfect heating 

 apparatus which has yet been invented. — Cond. 



SCOTLAND. 



Edinburgh Fruit Market. — Sept. 26. Fruit is uncommonly abundant 

 this season, and consequently it is selling remarkably cheap. Baking apples 

 are selling at 1*., and best at Is. Qd. a peck of 16 lbs. Pears are nearly 

 over. Magnum Bonums are from 8d. to Is. a dozen. Orleans, 4s. a peck. 

 Black damsons are selling at 6s. a peck. Last year they sold from 18s. to 

 a guinea the gallon, that is, one peck and a half. Grapes are Is. Qd. to 

 Is. \0d. a pound. Black damsons, from Cheshire, known as the Wine 

 Grape damson, sell at 2fc?. per pound. (Scotsman.') 



Dec. 26. Pine-apples sell at 6s. Qd. and 8s. ; foreign grapes at Is. 3d. 

 to Is. 6c?. ; Scotch ditto at 2s. to 2s. Qd., and American pippins and French 

 rennets at Qd. to 8c?. a pound. Malaga oranges are in the market, and sell 

 at Is., and pomegranates from 4s. to Qs. a dozen. Portugal onions sell from 

 M. to 5d., filberts at Is. 3d., and Spanish melons at 1 Id. and Is. a pound. 

 Honey is scarce, and sells from 10s. to 15s. a Scotch pint, weighing 5 lbs. 

 (Ibid.) 



Certain Improvements in Garden Syringes have been made by Mr. D. 

 M'Dougal, of Edinburgh, horticulturist, for which he has taken out a 

 patent, dated Nov. 10. We shall be glad of further particulars. — Cond. 



Labourer's Cottages. — In this country the cottage of the labourer is 

 never (with hardly one exception) picturesque nor so comfortable as it 

 might be ; consisting, as you are aware, of two side walls and two gable 

 ends, the door in the centre of the house, and an apartment at each side, 

 with the fire-places in the gables, and not even a porch to break the dead 

 appearance of the side wall, and contribute warmth to the house. By such 

 cottages the most picturesque scenery is destroyed. From your intended 

 designs in the Gardener's Magazine * I anticipate two results : that gentle- 

 men will not destroy the scenery upon their estates by any longer allowing 

 the present style of building to be continued ; and that, from the comfort and 

 elegance afforded by your designs, the labourer will consider himself in honour 

 bound to attend to his cottage, and even acquire a taste for having it, inside 

 and out, more tidy than it is too frequently found. I allude to Scotland only ; 

 where, however, there has been great improvement in that respect of late 

 years. I think nothing contributes more to the sobriety, comfort, and 

 cleanliness of a labourer, than a taste for gardening, when it can be in- 

 stilled, and which, I think, a proprietor ought to promote by every means in 

 his power. I have seldom known a labourer who was fond of and kept his 

 garden neat, whose house and family also were not so, and who did not spend 



* We have upwards of two hundred of these designs ready for the 

 engraver, and intend to publish part of them in the Magazine, and part of 

 them separately. In the mean time, we can furnish copies of them, and 

 send a young architect to direct their execution, to any part of the country, 

 at a very moderate charge, and on the shortest notice. Any gentleman, on 

 calling here, may turn over the whole two hundred finished drawings, and 

 make his choice, and have working drawings or models made. — Cond. 



