THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 19, 1861. 
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thousand sis hundred sixtie-one, I, John Tredescant of South 
Lambeth in the Countie of Surrey, Gardiner, being at this 
present of perfect health, minde, and memorie, thanks be there¬ 
fore given to Almightie God, and calling to minde the un¬ 
certainty of death, and being desirous whilst I am in a Capacity 
to settle and dispose of such tilings as God of his goodnesse hath 
bestowed upon me, doe make and declare this my last Will and 
Testament as followeth. First and principally I commend and 
yield my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator, and 
my bodie to the Earth to be decently (according to the quality 
wherein I have liued) interred as neere as can be to my late 
deceased Father John Tredescant, and my sonne who lye buried 
in the parish Churchyard of Lambeth aforesaid, at the discretion 
of my Executrix hereafter named ; liopeing by and through the 
merits, death, and passion of my onely Saviour and Redeemer 
Jesus Christ to have full remission of all my Sinnes, and to see 
my God in the Land of the Living; and for my temporall 
Estate I doe will, bequeath, and dispose thereof as followeth. 
That is to saie, I will that all such debts as shall be by me justly 
due and owing to anie person or persons whatsoever at the time 
of my decease (if anie such be) shall be truly paid and satisfied, 
and after my Funeral charges shall be defrayed, for the doeing 
whereof I appoint the summe of twenty pounds or thereabouts 
shall be expended by my Executrix but not more. Item, I giue 
and bequeath upon the condition hereafter mentioned to my 
daughter Frances Norman the summe of ten pounds of Lawfull 
money of England, which I will shall be paid unto her within 
six moneths after my decease, and likewise I do forgive her 
the sum of fourscore pounds or thereabouts, Principall Money, 
besides the Interest thereof which I long since lent her late 
deceased husband Alexander Norman. Provided that shee and 
her husband, if she shall be then againe married, give my Exe¬ 
cutrix a generall release for the same. Item, I give and bequeath 
to my two namesakes Robert Tredescant and Thomas Tredes¬ 
cant, of Walberswick in the Countie of Suffolk, to eache of them 
the summe of five shillings apiece in remembrance of my loue, 
and to every childe or children of them the [said] Robert and 
Thomas that shall be liuing at the time of my decease the summe 
of two shillings and sixpence apiece. Item, I giue to Mris. 
Marie Edmonds, the daughter of my louing Friend Edward 
Harper, the summe of one hundred pounds, to be paid unto her 
after my wife’s decease ; and in case she die before my said wife, 
my will is and I doe hereby giue and bequeath the said summe of 
one hundred pounds, after my wife’s decease, to my Foure God¬ 
children, vizt. Hester, John, Leonard, and Elizabeth Edmonds, 
sonnes and daughters of the said Mris. Mary Edmonds Equally 
to be diuided amongst them, share and share alike; and if 
either of them die before he, her, or they receiue their share or 
portion so to be diuided, then the said share or portion of him, 
her, or them so dying to goe and be giuen to the survivor and 
survivors of them, share and share alike. Item, I doe hereby 
giue, will, devise and bequeath to my Cosin Katharine King, 
widdow, after the decease of my wife, the Little House commonly 
called the Welshmans house situate in South Lambeth aforesaid, 
together with that Little Piece of Ground now enclosed there¬ 
unto adjoyning; and to her heirs and assignee for euer. Item, 
I giue, devize, and bequeath my Closet of Rarities to my dearly 
beloued wife Hester Tredescant during her naturall Life, and 
after her decease I giue and bequeath the same to the Univer¬ 
sities of Oxford or Cambridge, to which of them shee shall think 
fitt at her decease. As for such other of my friends and kindred 
as I should nominate for Rings and small tokens of my Loue, I 
leaue that to the Care of my sa>d wife to bestow how inanie and 
to whome shee shall think deseruing. The rest and Residue of 
all my Estate Reall and personal! whatsoeuer, I wholly giue, 
devize, and bequeath to my deare and louing wife Hester Tre¬ 
descant, and to her lieires and assignes for euer. And I do 
hereby nominate, ordaine, constitute, and appoint my said Louing 
Wife Hester Tredescant full and sole Executrix of this my last 
will and Testament; and I doe desire Dr. Nurse and Mr. Mark 
Cottle to be Ouerseers of this my last Will and Testament, and 
I giue to each of them fortie shillings apiece. Lastly, I do 
hereby revoke all Wills by me formerly made, and will that this 
onely shall stand and be my last will and Testament, and no 
other. In Wittnesse whereof I the said John Tredescant to this 
my present last will and testmant haue set my hand and seale 
the daie and yeare aboue written. 
“ ‘John Tee (L.S.) descant. 
“‘Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said John 
Tresdescant the Testator, as and for his last Will and Testa¬ 
ment, in the presence of John Scatewell, Foulk Bignall, Robert 
Thompson, Junris, Ric. Newcourt, Junr, Richard Hoare, Notary 
Publique. 
“ Probatum apud London coram venerabili viro Dno Williamo 
Mericke milite Legum Doctore Commissario, etc., quinto die 
mensis May Anno Domir.i 1662, iuramento Hestore Tredescant, 
Relicte dicti defuncti et Executricis, etc.”— {Ibid., v., 367.) 
{To be continued.') 
KIDD’S HOT-AIR SYSTEM. 
I have read with much interest your articles on the improved 
method of heating by hot air, and intend to try it. 
I have a greenhouse heated on the old Polmaise principle. 
The furnace is of ample dimensions, covered with fire-tiles, and 
built in the manner recommended by Mr. Beaton—enclosed 
on three sides by detached walls, with a hot-air chamber over 
the whole. 
It appears to me that I have nothing to do but to close the 
present communication with the cold-air flue from the green¬ 
house, and to place the ventilators on each side of the furnace, 
and to make an opening in the ash-pit, as suggested by Mr. 
Beaton, to set the apparatus at work on the new principle, as my 
chief cause of complaint hitherto has been a waste of heat. I 
propose to adopt his other suggestion, and to carry the furnace 
flue (by means of iron or earthenware pipes), through the hot¬ 
air chamber. But I have some theoretical apprehensions as to 
the effect of the communication with the ash-pit. 
Will Mr. Beaton have the kindness to say whether there is 
not some danger, that the air passing through the ash-pit over 
hot cinders and ashes dropping from a coke or coal fire, will 
carry with it a noxious gas, injurious and even destructive to 
plants ? Also, whether the fire will not attract to itself from the 
ash-pit, by means of the opening into the hot-air chamber, a 
constant supply of air, and thus destroy the command over the 
supply intended to be obtained by the ash-pit door and the 
valve in it usually recommended?—A Subscriber erom the 
Beginning-. 
[Your furnace is the best constructed of all on the Polmaise 
system that we recollect to have read of, and you will have little 
difficulty in turning over the Polmaise to the Kiddean system, 
although the two are just as different as the day is from the 
night; but as your Polmaise is perfect so far, what we would 
advise you to try first would be to unite the two systems, and 
then ascertain accurately what extra power the Kiddean will 
give to Polmaise. The next step should be to stop Polmaise, 
and work the Kiddean only, and see also if that is an advantage 
in requiring less waste of fuel, and pray let us know the result. 
Such an experiment as you can prove sufficiently for our purpose, 
without costing you anything, is just what we have been looking 
out for since this turn of the hot air has blown our way. Wiiha 
properly constructed air-chamber, such as you possess, we would 
prefer Polmaise be r ore an old flue in the country for a green¬ 
house. But the best Polmaise must necessarily burn more fuel 
for the same amount of work than the Kiddean, because a 
stronger fire is needed to get the back air, or cooled air, from 
the greenhouse—the very point on which Polmaise failed, and 
for which it has been given up by the public. Now, that the 
Polmaise circuit of air is fully and fairly proved not to have 
been necessary, much less fuel would need, seemingly, to be used ; 
and the less quantity of fuel used, the better the air will be on 
reaching the plants. But in building a new furnace for the 
Kiddean system, we would place it lower and much farther from 
the greenhouse than would be necessary for Polmaise, for two 
reasons : for a better draught, and for qualifying the air, or cooling 
it more before entering the greenhouse. In our own case we 
shall be under the necessity of keeping the furnace almost on a 
level with our pit; and to get a sufficiently quick draught, we 
have been considering whether one run of a four-inch glazed 
earthenware pipe would not be the best means for that end, to 
place it close to the front wall, and to rise one length of pipe 
with an elbow-turn at the farthest end, to make the joints, of 
common mortar, and to leave a small space in each mortar-joint 
for the escape of part of the onward current. Long pits could 
certainly be heated cheaper by such means than by any other, 
and more especially on the level; and who knows but the 
cheapest and best way of all the plans hitherto tried to heat 
greenhouses, would be to use one row of these glazed earthen¬ 
ware pipes along the front of the greenhouse instead of a flue 
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