1856. | 
THE A icc Seat CHRONICLE. 
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NOVEMBER 22 
grees tty "=. N zik, an : 2 as three to five. conical bi | serious! itimight make 4 
climate. Insh d th at it should be filled fall of E i a boile ose | go good ‘undation for a race of brilliant colored $ — 
for that 15 inches deena will hold about 60 irae f | What specie o you think would be the se for 
m ry trees were never Shad give | anthracite or 36 of c It is evi ident, therefore, re obtain g thie resu! ? I have a very strong bulb, the 
any fruit wo will eee more which will fi ar, and 
T knew that his suggestions as to thinning and pruning | of co! oke. "Gecoke is never quite ca and often on this I ape p We he experiment. W. Breaäley, 
were elt very infi [This is so grier different in manner o 
3 a or | to “good o oven- n-coke “but t superior to ordin 
ees, was | With respect to the work see a boiler will ae T tai 
bused English | that a 15-in ch furnace o f the c nstruc tion which Te em- 
The giem way perhaps would be to D 
it. 
it vith, tigrinum, superbum, lancifolium, and chalce- 
ed al 
iction to all that M. d hly 150 ft. 
without | from 60 to 75 lbs, of fuel per 24 hours when doing so 
ps werkidle ee, higha sym secret I find arenes d] 
r an Orchid-hou In eather perha 
Lps so 
e shown tek eae ssi ee same thing over 75 lbs. is burnt, ete an average of six winter | 
I kno 2 i 
ors that in 1 
r y educated them, ho 
855 thinne 
d their p 
4 
me culti- | months 75 lbs. will cover the daily consumption. 
at most three charges, thi 
This | w 
at | reme 
and 
< dron Water Pipes.— I observe an inquiry from 
an” concerning iron et and have 
in the same way; and I lerari: the 
the 
oping to have a crop in 1856 ; ; ;| is to say t 
5 
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oma 24 
eae TA 
D 
ive any y produce ; 
fc 
thus telling us in tolerably Lege 
smart The ram of the more frequent 
at the ae is not ke ept qu uite so full i in severe ; as in | 
ns that certain matters are oe our cont trol. 
ha With 
l will remain alight unat- 
ive a crop. There a 
7 bi ennially. a 
are some val 
d in some e cases ty Thinning the 
will ne 
03 ; but the heat duri 
og 7 ees in ated latter case would be small at un- 
a. the | ‘trees 
have not certain ; and if the fire be allowed to get very low, = 
\ly failed this season 5 either becomes extremely fierce or goes sa so cone 
ee 
open 
g the | usin 
| best remed rev 
the conveyance of wa 
oses, is on ere them 
and then ins 
ing o 
ge to ieeronhiy clean 
nside. I manu ufac ture these 
TE 
he effe f d seasons cannot be avoided. The exact aes ret the fire 
I énapleyed t will keep ens web t with house cin- | per fectly, Inm pite 
ess and d excellence of the Sturmer Pippin Apple. ders ; it vill give most heat for the longest time with Cloth d Roe £, & an ten have had many inter- 
planted eg certs and made it iy fat ot in | anthracite ; it (will burn out quickest, giving at the | esting communications about the Cloth of Gold Rose, 
Covent Gar — a a late desser with coke. After 20 edie ex-|and I shall be glad to add my experien that 
ew years tl n safely say that there is no ge which | your other correspendents. 1 have a plant on its own 
my good Pies 5 Ta ne crop was in star a is so o aksiya manag ged, or which will give muc! = t, put out from a pot in 1848 against a south wall. 
1852 the bl ld d by frost ; tity of fuel. never moved at all fo o „in fact, I don’t 
in 1853; the same in 1854, the severe frost of | is there any boiler which requires so little utice BNS think it grew as many inches, but in 1851 it threw out 
April 25 ; and the t: were ahs much injured by it, oe conclusion I would guard your readers against a | two shoots from the eae ach of which made t 
as they had a PENE a l the summer. I| common error in fixing conical boilers ; viz., me 2 feet of wood. These are now the main stems ; one 
thi th ees uch care the follo one giving, vie = high chimn neys, and consequently to measures at the point “ef separation, nine and three- 
winter Bod! Lionel any in spring, but the quarter inches in girth, the other seven. It hed 
blossoms w re pale and wey $ ns A all ome ‘off re they a are attached to a high armed 7 ng bottom | the top of the house psi 28 feet or three years 
without ‘setting their fruit; b t the pan - be left open, mit a | ago, shoots of 10 feet in 
ht of cool o pass up it. in this pel e use a | length. The border is vente of very poor | soil, but 
in the autumn, and I ated front “ike: long rest boiler attached Pret a chimney 40 feet high _— aso | the Dere is it ig mulched quid 
they had had that I should bs favoured with an ab an y for | man Now for the blooming. It is its e 
dant crop The trees last spring blo pmed a conical boiler does not exceed 6 to 8 fee aie (udian in this I believe sets people 
magnificent ‘fA, ~ fn blossoms a7 vi Bieber the weather should ‘always be a soot-door or of ing ai t it e who has plant in full 
favo! and yet say that f the chimney, which will re aes the | beauty would rest till he had one. With p isely the 
blossom dro) rere "Sh, for I have se 7 idiered a dozen fire beti per. J. Rogers.——Sigma (see | same culture year by year, I can never count on 
Apples fro s that have given ma from 400 to 500 | p. 742) states that to heat a large house with Rogers’ | blooms. In 1855 my plant was covered ; there 
bushels, I cuid 3 not discover tbat the bl re | Conical Boile; d only cost 117. 2s.. He means, I could not have been less than p or 250. 
injured, for petals, stamens, and pistils were all perfect, | imagine, the ip erg of boiler pe pipes, together with | This year, with equal growth of w there were 
snd the weath so fine ed to | that of fixing t the em, nother correspondent (see p. 758) 20. nd the blooms come pra from 
orm It ap of tho Ses g by 14 wide cannot be heated | eyes tarting from strong young wood of the 
mysteries n very pro ny moar "Datars the under 201. Does he mean the expense of faei a4 Iti is | vious year, whi ch 1 makes 1 me think that a foe summer rto’ 
eye of the ner, to bri m up as it were, and t 
mind him that although a clever fellow he ca se, 80 much depen ding on whether th latter | Ik l I 
te into all that Nature leases t to do. Thave ther re- | is is loy or r low. A low house is best adapted eyes start fro about pve collar of the ane 
gain n the e expense o of | which invariably, when inen zerr x yard long, cease growth 
always be practised, b l varies ; in one locality you may buy coal for 10s. | and throw large oom, but the individual 
ivator, be he Fiemnish < = relh, to assert that z oa ton n, in others it j -máy cost 18s. 9 ton. Mild | flowers are not nea Tya so oo as those which come 
several pounds in the | singly. e ne has no pruning except enti out 
any peculiar cultur a ost favourable circum- |expense of fuel for a ting purposes. In 1855 I force dead w t ver, 1 bloomed in au 
tances for Far blossoming at fruit trees are a bri rig ght |a Vinery 44 feet long br 14 feet wide. It was heated | owing no doubt to a want of a more liberal treatm tment. 
sun and cold ce Bede s from north to south-east. Thre 1 boil fuel for ren pony n 10s. | I have Kinet plant | budded on Sir hed ag Scott (Noi- 
Pca grees o ray ie rost at Pl are of no ill. cti- .. | Finding that the oiler: just mention: med a , but wok ge = 
; this is the cronies et the great fruit growing great quantity of fuel, I it remove 
dite a the east of Asia, d also. wa those p of | with one of Ta; pais ewe tubular ones. With vat boiler the | I want to say P another word about Roses. How rl 
gereali fuel this se for the above name ed house only cost peers cannot always go and see 
of Plum Our moist "At tlantic and oceanic ri 10s. mies fit to | for ourselves, to be guided oice of new ones? 
Vind wh hich ch b w over the wlio e surface of England, | cut the rares eek in June, Having prann a That extract rae the Florist” in your 45th 
Ireland, and Scotland are most inimical to the blossoms egal boilers with | is to the poin catalogue rag yor extols a new 
of fruit trees, and I fully iagi that to ensure regular e recommend Taylor’e-a as -s Toth eficient Rose, and gires ps epithets perfect, superb,” 
crops of Pears and Plu our fruit t gardens must t be | and e nom mical, A and so peg wh sary in the folowing, e it puts the 
covered with glass, Meet Br” same an ordin: er, or worse. 
enlarged, for espaliers, = pyramids, and bushes may | | rience as one reir gas ¢ cinders or Scotch coal i in iat if an penal > 13 catalogues 
be poe in span-roofed houses and so managed as | Ro; ogers’ boilers. P Whi different g rs, he is more lost than 
seldom or never to fail to give good cro 7 know of his ki d = 1. The boiler ever. Take, for instance, those of Messrs. Rivers and - 
clever cultivator who has planted a house with |3 alluded to v 110f Ww Here is ! s ption of Williams’ - 
Plums as pyramids ; these bear so undantly every 15 feet, an ad th oe ; may be Maps for 24 h stile new evergreen eli :—“ This is a seedling ° 
year ag to do away with the necessity of root pruning, | auy attention. i Mr. Lynch White’s — one at bsp and gh Ayrshire Splendens, fertil ith yellow Thea ; 
for the I antity of fruit wae ive, and dry- | capable of heating 150 feet of 4-in ipe, requi: its rapid growth and elegant habit is precisely like the 
ness of the soil in i preven e trees making | attention every ours merely because it is pa riie r. | Ayrshire Splend while its gl foliage and lon: 
wood erts. Constant a = scans the = cement for | lemon-coloured bu — of 
joining iron pipes to f Portland and | yellow Thea ; its flow creamy white, deliciously 
cement, the PiE =a Sirengthen, the latter | sweet scented, and are 5 borne in long of 12 to 
Home Corr E dence. to set quickly if eran Sigma only recommended 20 on a single shoot, bei g produced from every axil.” 
DS Al i r (in d at least) is th ares = 
of conical boilers which I om hor | now for Jude frost du g. ths, and he says that, such a I had 'neriy bought a plant in 
wards of 20 years, I may perhaps be able to pr ‘a if requi a quence, but happened to have no room for it. Well; 
satisfactory answer to the inquiries of some of your | and wood. Ans Constant ma a not Prue a| now for Mr, Rivers :—“ Williams’ ali bing 
correspondents. The fuel wows for conical boilers little work hoe by Mr. Rivers and styled “ The Rose h d quite worthless.” Is not this a suffi- 
is either hi oven coke, or We h | Orchard House,” he had pr get one im mmediately, | cient difference between “ the doctors” to nt 
coal ; that i is required for heating an | amateurs from deciding? The d Roses are the best 
seg si enn eee house. Sigma wee in to state that a| yet. I do not believe there are six better than Coupe 
arranged apaia though fe Lane genteel ape large orchard house 60 feet by 20 feet can be heated | d'Hébé, Baronne Prevost, Géant Batailles, 
cinders ‘are ores re suitab: an | sufficiently to reese and advance the ripenii Reine, Madame Laffay, Prince is last is a 
bo, aoe kes otto, The 1 most gowerfal oof te frat and w for 111. 2s., the boil sti prince i 1, b La Reine | ats all when it opens 
all fuel is anthracite mixed eu oe in an — | and the h pipe and fittings 81. 123., eae gardener pr ‘operly ; it is un , that is its fault. If want 
tion of two of anthracite to of coal, an roken | fixing | Se apparatus, as in ease. regard to| six more, the following are — here— 
to about the size of hen’s Ps This I employ only g “statements being likely to ae the eminot (hy. China), Louis (hy. perp.), 
the severest weather when I want th possib blie,” and “to his not being sufficiently int Tap a rw (by. perp.), Wiliam, Griffiths (hy. 
heat, Ordinarily I raci only. Fuel of | with these ma to be a safe guide,” perh is had | perp.) esse (hy. perp)» Bon de Ia Mal- 
equal quality, say oven coke an anthracite, is valuable | better be a more competent ee than “A d Roses not È bekteni yet, in my 
in the ratio of its weight— oni is to say, 1 Ib, of fuel | Constant Reader” a "an A. Re prot 
will q ork whatever its bulk be. be. | _ Lilium gigantewm.—It Ate erie Several inquiries | pie eres made as to the 
Now, coke. is lighter than anthracite, ae i — = — be song ae ate | width jo of a ‘a ditch necessary travel from one 
balk is required to do a given amount of work, See {five cil introduse ma ar den eee Pre e ther they would pase Up 
for bulk the weight of oven-coke is to anthracite abou t scarlet or crimson, ayes done without |a Is any ditch or tunnel necessary ? 
