246 



CURRENT GARDEN LORE. 



Beverley Clod Crusher.— This implement, also known 

 as Deuscher's clod-crusher, may be described as a roller 

 composed of 10 or 12 movable disks playing loosely on a 

 spindle, each disk being vmdyked on the periphery and 

 having blunt 

 teeth attached to 

 the sides. M. 

 Langelier, in hi . 

 recent publica- 

 tion on agricul- 

 ture from which 

 cut is repro- 

 duced, says that 

 this implement will pulverize the very hardest clods, 

 but we believe it should be used immediately after the 

 plow, the harrows following. 



Chrysanthemum J. Stanborough Dibbens. — This 

 new incurved Japanese chrysanthemum h:is globular 

 heads of a large size, suitable for exhibition purposes, 

 and wherever it was shown last autumn growers and 

 connoisseurs of chrysanthemums were highly pleased 

 with it. The head, as a whole, appears of a bright yel- 

 low, and when examined more closely the florets are 

 seen to be broad, blunt clear bright yellow on the upper 



Beverley Clod-Crushek. 



C.HRYS.'iNTHEA\Uin J. bT.ANBOROUGH DiBBENS. 



surface and sulphur-yellow on the reverse. When in 

 perfection the florets are regularly incurved, but later on 

 the outer ones are reflexed and incurved at the tips, 

 ■while the middle ones are reflexed and the uppermost 



ones erect, quite filling up the center of the flower' 

 These peculiarities may often result, however, from con- 

 ditions of culture as well as the age of bloom ; but when 

 in its prime the latter presents the regularly incurved 

 form with interlocking florets shown in the illustration. — • 

 Gardcniuff World. 



Improved Method of Heating.— In this apparatus a 

 generator of suitable design and dimensions is provided 

 with an air chamber, 

 or with air-cham- 

 bers, and withaboil- 

 er fitted with tubes 

 for generating heat ; 

 the boiler being sup- 

 plied with water by 

 a suitably placed 

 cistern— and pipes or 

 other appliances are 

 attached thereto as 

 required for circu- 

 lating, distributing 

 and using the heat 

 generated. The air- 

 chambers and the 

 whole system of 

 pipes have free 

 communication 

 with the atmos- 

 phere by aper- 

 tures in the 

 under surface of 

 the pipes, which 



provide for the circulation, expansion and contraction 

 of the hot air and vapor, convey the condensed water 

 to the boiler and maintain an equal pressure between 

 the atmosphere outside the apparatus and the current 

 of heat circulating therein. The arrows in the gen- 

 erator indicate the rise of vapor from the boiler, the 

 hot current of waste heat from the gas-flame and the 

 hot-air current in the air-chamber. The heat and 

 vapor unite and form the moist circulating current. 

 The arrows in the pipes show the direction of the flow, 

 and the current of non-radiated heat returning to the 

 air-chamber. In small apparatus, the fuel may be 

 or mineral oil, and the waste heat may be passed 

 through the pipes to find its exit through the small 

 pipe a' , covering the aperture for expansion, which is 

 carried to the outside air. For large apparatus, coke 

 or coal can be used, and the quantity of fuel required 

 will be little more than a third of the amount con- 

 sumed by hot-water apparatus of equal size. The gen- 

 erator can be substituted for the boiler of existing 

 hot-water apparatus and the water in the pipes dis- 

 pensed with, thereby saving the fuel required to heat 

 it. — Garde7iers' Chi- on icle . 

 Celery plants should be bought from those who make 

 a specialty of growing them for sale on a large scale. At 

 thinning-time the young plants may be procured for one- 

 third the price asked for them at the regular planting- 



F Heating. 



