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JOUENAL op hobticultube and cottage gaedenee. 



[ September"29, 1870. 



some expense in experiments, and being recommended to do 

 bo, I have registered the invention with the intention to 

 patent it. 



I enclose a ground plan, one-sixteenth of an inch to a foot, 

 of my vinery, orchard house, ground vinery, and Melon and 

 Cucumber pits, which I became desirous to heat with one fire, 

 the vinery being heated with a small kind of saddle boiler, 



which consumed a large amount of^fuel, the pits with'a'flue 

 consuming as much or more. 



Economy with efficiency being essential, I sought the means 

 to the end, and was recommended what I considered an. 

 enormous saddle boiler, as being required for about 600 feet 

 of 4-inch piping. This did not seem likely to mend matters, 

 so I determined, after an examination of numerous boilers 



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GEOCKD PLAN OF HOUSES. 



Scale l-16th of an inch to the foot. 



a. Viaery. b. Orchard-house. 



c. Cucumber and Melon house. 



t>. Ground vinery, with the hot-water pipes beneath the surface of 



the soil. 

 e. Boiler house. 

 T. Carriage drive, beneath which^the hot-water pipes pass, as 



indicated by the dotted lines, 

 v, v, v. Valves. 



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saddle, cannon, tubular, &c, to have one made according to 

 my own fancy, being convinced that the most economical 

 boiler was Btill a desideratum, the loss of heat and waste of 



1. Flue. 



2. Fire. 



3. Ashpit. 

 4, 4. Boiler. 



6, 6. Flow pipes. 

 6, 6. Return pipes. 



7. 7, Fine surrounding the boiler, 

 over its top, and up chim- 

 ney in direction of + 

 8. Feeding pipe. 

 9. Tap 



fuel being in most cases very great. My boiler is a success 

 beyond my most sanguine expectations. It is a cylindrical 

 inverted one, self-feeding and smoke-consuming, and one 

 charge of fuel may be made to burn six, twelve, eighteen, or 

 even twenty-four hours. It never fouls. The fire being fairly 

 lighted, the cylinder may be filled with refuse coal-dust mixed 

 with ashes and cinders from the fires in the house, or with 

 slack or coke, or with coke and slack mixed, or with any 

 rubbish with some heating power. The fuel will gradually fall 

 into the cylinder to be consumed below without escape of 

 smoke, after being properly started, the draught being regu- 

 lated through a sliding ash-pit door, to control the consump- 

 tion of fuel according to the heat required. The boiler being 

 properly set is entirely Burrounded by fire ; every radiating ray 

 and every reflected ray impinging upon some part of its sur- 

 face, to be taken up by the water and carried rapidly through 

 the pipes for distribution through the houses, the loss of heat 

 is reduced to a minimum. The first exclamation of several 

 practical men who have seen it has been, " There can be no 

 loss of heat here," which I believe to be a literal fact. The 

 boiler I have had made holds fifteen gallons of water, heats 

 efficiently with very ordinary fuel 750 feet of piping, with 

 good fuel would do much more, and consumes less in heating all 

 the houses than the flue required to heat the Melon-pits alone. 



I am unwilling to trespass further upon your time or space, 

 but if you or your readers would be interested in the quantity 

 and kind of fuel consumed in twenty-four hours, with the 

 average temperature of the water at 130 feet distance, the 

 farthest point from the boiler, or any other particulars, I shall 

 be happy to supply them. — John Gabe, Bewdley. 



[We have no doubt that under your own management your 

 newly- invented boiler does all you say of it, and we say this 

 candidly, though we have little faith in the exolamation of the 

 practical men who have seen it, " There can be no loss of heat 

 here," even though you believe that to be a literal faot. We 



