PAXTON’S 
HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 
JUNE, 1836. 
HORTICULTURE. 
ON HEATING HOTBEDS BY HOT WATER INSTEAD OF 
STABLE DUNG. 
Many proprietors of gardens and lovers of gardening are obliged to 
forego many of the early products of the garden, from the difficulty of 
obtaining stable dung enough for their ordinary purposes. Other 
fermenting materials, as leaves or tanners’ bark, are equally incon¬ 
venient or expensive to procure; and, therefore, it has been long 
anxiously wished, by many persons, that some substitute for hot dung 
could be applied in the culture of cucumbers and melons. 
In our April number, page 133, our correspondent A. Z. begs for 
information on this point; and, luckily, another valued correspondent 
put it in our power to give a description of a pit for cucumbers and 
melons heated by hot water, and which had been successfully worked 
for several years, adding a promise, that if any further information 
were required, he would willingly give it. On behalf of our corre¬ 
spondent A. Z., we begged of R. G. to give us a plan and section 
of his pit, and which he has been kind enough to hand to us for 
publication. 
The general description of the length, width, and manner of fitting 
the interior, may be learned by turning back to page 134, with this 
explanation, that the boiler is surrounded by a fine; and when it 
is said that “ a four-inch pipe is carried just long enough to go 
through the hack fiue and brick-work ,” the writer means, through the 
flue and brick-work which surrounds the inner end of the boiler. This 
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