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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
LMay, 
witli systematic neglect and partial decay, if not entire death. Only those who 
have seen the Cyclamen well done can rightly appreciate its worth as a winter¬ 
blooming plant. Such a house of Cyclamens as Mr. Wiggins can show during 
the spring of the year would convert the most sceptical to a belief in its valuable 
qualities ; and those who can so rightly appreciate it are increasing in numbers 
day by day.—B. D. 
BOILER IMPROVEMENTS. 
UE present object is not to discuss the merits of rival boilers, tubulars or 
saddles, wrought or cast, but to direct attention to one or two features we 
have noted in what is called the Patent Duplex Compensating Boiler of 
the Messrs. Weeks and Co., by whose courtesy we are enabled to introduce 
the annexed explanatory woodcut. An examination of the figure will show that 
by merely turning the valves this boiler can at any time be separated into two 
distinct parts or sections, the one of which may be left working, while the other 
is taken away. The advantage of this is sufficiently obvious. When boilers fail 
it is generally through the occurrence of a flaw at a single point, but if the part 
containing the defective portion could be moved away for repair, as it can in this 
case, without interrupting the action of the other part or section, the gardener 
