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Descriptioti, with Plans and Sections, 



Perspective Section of the Vineries, 

 i. The floor of the pine pit ; L, the back shed ; and G G, the hot- water pipes. 



the plans, from which the accompanying engravings are taken ; 

 and also sent us some particulars respecting the construction of 

 the houses, and ample testimonials from Mr. Maxwell and his 

 gardener, of the success which has attended their use after eighteen 

 months' trial. 



Mr. Maxwell says : " The hot-houses which you erected for 

 me have fully answered my expectations ; your system of heating 

 them with hot water has proved most successful, and I can 

 strongly recommend it to the adoption of any one. — W. C. M. 

 Everingham Park, May 6. J 836." 



Mr. Ingram, Mr. Maxwell's gardener, who is well known to 

 Mr. Mackintosh of Claremont, Mr. Knight, Mr. Lowe, and 

 other London nurserymen, as a highly respectable man, and an 

 excellent gardener, says : " When you erected the hot-houses in 

 the gardens of W. C. Maxwell, Esq., I promised you that, after 

 a twelvemonth's trial, I would give you my candid opinion in 

 regard to their merits ; and, now that eighteen months have 

 passed by, I consider that I am fully warranted to lay it before 

 you. It affords me much pleasure to be able to assure you that 

 these houses are, in every respect, to my satisfaction, and 

 answer every purpose for which they were intended. Your plan 

 of opening the ventilators is excellent, and I hope it will, some 

 day, not far distant, be generally adopted. I can command a 



