34. WeeJces^s Mode of heating 



where tliey may commence market-gardening for themselves. 

 1 have known many who in a few years have established them- 

 selves very comfortably in this way ; and as land is cheap, 

 and neither poor's rates nor tithes to pay, if they mind their own 

 business, they will get along very quietly. But I would not 

 advise a o-ardener who has a family to come here, except he can 

 brino- with him 100 or 200 guineas ; for it often happens that 

 some months o-o over his head before he gets into a situation. 

 In the mean time, it takes considerable sums to support his 

 family. If he has no children, and his wife understands taking 

 care of a dairy, they may both get employed, and live in the 

 same house with the family; he managing the garden, and she 

 the dairy : but if he has sons grown up, or of the age of 1 8 

 or 20 years, he might hire a piece of land near the city, and 

 commence raising green-house plants for sale. I have known 

 some do very well in this way, and among them is your worthy 

 friend, Thomas Hogg. But, if a man come here from principle, 

 he will not regret being put to a little inconvenience, when 

 he reflects that he has delivered his children from the burdens 

 and bondage of Europe, and placed them where their worth 

 and industry will be suitably rewarded. Some of the wise 

 men in Britain, of late years, have been devising plans whereby 

 to stop the growth of the poor population ; but in America 

 there is room and sustenance for the whole population of 

 Europe for very many centuries to come. A man wants only 

 health (3S years I have been in New York, and have not 

 been one day confined by sickness), hands, a good character, 

 and a good spade, to work his way in this country. 



Yours, with respect, 

 Ne'iso York, Sept. 15. 1832. Grant Thorburn. 



Art. VII. On henti?7g Hot-houses hy hot Water; with some Account 

 of a neiv Mode, the Invention of Mr. Weekes. By Mr. Main. 



Sir, 



As the Gardener's Magazine is a receptacle for every thing 

 relating to horticulture, I beg to present a few remarks on 

 the various plans of heating houses by hot water. 



Ever since the idea of using hot water as a medium of 

 conveying heat was first entertained, various improvements 

 have been suggested by professional engineers and others, all 

 approaching towards perfection in the form and efhciency of 

 the apparatus employed. The first designs were objected to 

 on account of their expensive massiveness, slow action, and 



