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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 
HEATING greenhouses, 
. Tlie heating apparatus best suiinri < .. 
wants of the amateur is the ordiua,.M.i 
water circulation from a hnim ■ ■' 
feet below .10 level 
well-drained cellar, at one end of the -d ss 
and covered by a shed or onice, which, ti„’ 
always warm, will be found a convenie.U 
workshop 1,1 cold weather. The boiler should 
always be a size larger than the pipe-litters 
advise, to make sure of being sunieieiit 
Much will depend on (he draught of the 
chimney; the same boiler will do twice as 
much work with a good draught as with a^ 
low and small chimney. 
To maintain tropical heat in the eoiupnrt- 
nient eleven and a half feet wide and nine feet 
high will require six or eight four-inch pipes, 
while the portion devoted to hai-dy plants 
will not need more than half as many. In 
heating, much will depend on location and 
the shelter afforded by hills and trees on the 
north and west. The eompartineuts on the 
north will require about four pipes, and in 
the portion devoted to the cutting-bench two 
will pass under the bench, and be so in¬ 
closed as to give bottom heat to the cut¬ 
tings. 
An abundant supjily of watei' is almost as 
important as heat. If the public water¬ 
works do not afford this, it may be raised 
ft’om a well or cistern by a windmill, to a 
tank fifteen or twenty feet high in the loft 
of the boiler-house. It is desirable to have 
it slightly warined for tropical plants, which 
may easily be done by having the tank con¬ 
nected with the boiler by circulating pipes 
provided with valves. 
If found convenient, the boiler and shed 
may be placed in the middle of the structure, 
carrying the heating pipes both ways there¬ 
from. This is a more symmetrical arrange¬ 
ment, but this point will be governed in 
great measure by convenience as regards 
accessibility by coal wagons, drainage of 
the cellar, and nearness to the supply of 
water. 
The internal arrangement will be best left 
to the taste of the owner, but any plant will 
thrive better in a bed where the roots can 
spread than if confined in a jDOt, but the 
confined condition of the roots favors early 
■flowering; moreover, plants that are to be 
removed out-doors in summer are best pot¬ 
ted. The pot, therefore, is a necessity, and 
is best kept from drying uji by plunging to 
the rim in clean sand. 
Such a house as has been described will 
cost from jMteen to twenty-five dollars per 
foot of length, according to the style and 
thoroughness of the work. 
Some amateur’s will desire only a small 
greenery of one compartment, attached to 
the dwelling-house, and heated by a coil of 
•pipe from the furnace in the cellar, or, whore 
steam is used, by a steam pipe, and much 
enjoyment may be derived from such a 
structure. It must be partitioned from the ; 
house so tightly that it can be smoked with-, 
out smoking the dwelling. A very con-; 
venient greenery may be cheaply made by 
fitting sashes between the posts of a piazza, 
to be removed in summer with all the s e ves i 
and pots. A heating coil of one-inch pipe, 
or a water-back in the flre-pot of a common | 
furnace, connected with a system of ^ | 
tion around the piazza floor, will su ce or, 
heating, or if steam is used for heating e j 
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house, it may bo very conveniently extended 
to the groonory. 
1'or small groeuhouses, detached from the 
dwol ing-houso, the hot-water circulation 
will bo found cheaper and more satisfactory 
Uiau steam, and far better than the old-fnsh- 
lonod Hue, rod-hot at one end and cold at 
tlm other, which is also a cuml.rous alTair 
and now little used, si,earn has advantages 
whore several houses are to be heated from 
one (ire, siiico it is easier to divide and reg¬ 
ulate the heat; but for so simple a structure 
as has boon ilescrihed nothing is so effioicnl 
and ocoiiomieal as a good hot-waler boiler. 
The combination of due and boiler is of 
much practical importance, the saving in 
fuel being balanced by the impaired draught 
and the danger of the escape of poisonous 
gasses into tho house to the destruction of 
its contents.— (Cw. I). I’hllhrich-, before the 
Muss. Horl. fiocietij. 
BUILDINGS OF THE ANCIENTS, 
It would seem that the modern system of 
hotels and apartment houses on a vast scale 
is mere child’s play compared with the prac¬ 
tice of the ancients in the same direction. 
The recent excavations at Pompeii have iiu- 
earthed some enormous buildings, of such 
beauty and solidity in architecture, such per¬ 
fect drainage, and such provisions for health 
and comfort, as to fill all who have seen them 
with astonishment. These newly discovered 
buildings contain thirty or forty immensely 
spacious apartments on the first floor, and as 
many on the second. The ’rooms looked out 
on a rotunda nearly forty feet long ; courts 
supported by columns surrounded the bed¬ 
rooms, which opened upon large ornamental 
gardens with fountains. Provision for light 
and air was made upon the most extensive 
scale. On the second floor were found evi¬ 
dences that there were suites of rooms built 
upon the flat plan of to-day. In fact, the 
revelations made by the exhumers at Pompeii 
show that place to have been one of the most 
wonderful of watering-places for splendor, 
comfort, health, and enjoyment, and give 
every evidence that floor-renting, like many 
other modern improvements, is not a new 
thing under the Boston Salurdai/ Even- 
ing GazcKc. 
BUTTERED FLOUR. 
“ A Connecticut company,” says the Hart¬ 
ford Times, “makes flour all ready for 
baking biscuit or strawberry shortcake; it 
only requires to be mixed with milk or cold 
water, and the batter is ready for the oven. 
The process of its manufactui’o is interest¬ 
ing. A quantity of wheat flour is sifted and 
dumped into a largo tub. Butter cut into 
large cubes is added to the flour. Then the 
white-coated operator w'eighs out certain 
mystei’ious quantities of baking soda and 
fine table-salt, which go to swell the con¬ 
tents of the tub. Then the mLxture is placed 
in a large polished cask, which revolves 
slowly in one direction, while a sort of 
dasher inside moves in the opposite direc¬ 
tion. The cask revolves about thirty min¬ 
utes, at the end of which time it is opened. 
It is found that the ingredients have been 
thoroughly mixed; every pai’tiele of moist¬ 
ure contained in the butter has been evapo¬ 
rated, and that the mixture is as fragi’ant as 
new-mown hay. It is then placed in bags 
and boxed for shipment.”. 
OUR BOOK TABLE. 
The Ainoi’ican Seedsman.—Prospectus of a 
, new magiizini! devoted to tlie interests of seed 
j dealers and growers, soon to be iniblishcd by I. F. 
I Tllliiiglinsl. I.n Plume, Pa. 
! Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of New-York, 1 S 5 
Broadway. Second Animal P.eport, showing the 
general benllliy condlUon of the eoinpanj'. Its 
i cash assets aiiiountiiig to over half a million 
dollars. 
Kansas Agriculture.— Report of the State 
Board for the niontli of August, containing the 
cstiinaled yield of Corn, acreage of Grass under 
fence, iiumlier.s and iirodiicts of Live Stock, Fi-uit 
and .Miscellaneous Statistics. Win. Sims, Secrc- 
lar,v. Topeka, Kansas. 
Protection and Free Trade To-day, by Robert 
P. Porter, published liy Janies K. Osgood &. Co., 
Boston. 'I'liis papei-, which was read before the 
Arkwriglit Club, Boston, and ordered printed, 
gives a clear expo.<ition of tho principal facts 
aliout Protection and Free Trade, at Home and 
Abroad, in Field and Workshop, and is well worth 
(he careful study of every thinking man. 
The Age of a Horse, by Professor ./. Jf. Beard, 
published by M. T. Richard.son, New-York. A 
pocket manual, giving full information of the 
methods employed by professional horsemen and 
vetci inarians to determine the age of horses, with 
numerous illustrations, showing the shape of the 
teeth at dill'eront ages. And a chapter on Horse 
Character, or how to determine the disposition 
of ahorse, with portraits of several famous trot¬ 
ters and thorough-breds. 
Outing, Boston, J/«ss.—The. fact that the Octo¬ 
ber issue of Oiiliny is the opening number of 
Volume V.is in Itself an evidence of success and 
growth on the part of this magazine thatis veiy 
snti.sfactory to aU who believe in the rigorous out¬ 
door life which it exemplifies and illustrates. Out- 
iiiy is fortunate among the younger magazines in 
haviug found an audience waltiugfor it. The field 
it entered two years ago was quite read 3 ’ for the • 
plowing. The gospel of recreation was alive in 
the public conscience, and Oullny finds a warm 
response, from month to month, to its pleasant 
preaching in prose, poetrj’, and pictures. The 
October number is varied and bright in its attrac¬ 
tions. 
Mail Wonderftil in the House Beautlftil, by 
Drs. Chllion B. Allen and Mary A. Allen. Ele¬ 
gantly bound in cloth; price, S1.50. Published by 
Fowler A- Wells Co., New-York. 
The book is an allegorj’, in which the bodj’ is 
the “House Beautiful,” and its inhabitant the 
“Man Wonderful.” The building of the house is 
shown from foundation to roof, and then we are 
taken through the different rooms, and their 
wonders and beauties disiilaj’ed to us, and all 
this time wo are being taught—almost without 
knowing it—Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, 
with ijractical .applications and suggestions. 
We are tlien introduced to the inhabitant of the 
house, “ Tlic Mail' Wonderful,” and learn of his 
growth, devclopmcut, and habits. We also be¬ 
come acquainted with the guests whom ho onter- 
lains, and find that some of them are doubtful 
acquaintances, some bad, and some decldedlj' 
wicked, while others arc verj' good compauj'. 
Uuder this form we learn of food, drink, and the 
elleots of narcotics antf stimulants. 
The illustrations are of the best, and these, 
together with tho hapiw verbal illustrations, 
give the reader a clear idea of the sufitects 
treated. 
American Association of Niu’sery-iueu, Flor¬ 
ists and Seedsmen ; Proceedings of the Ninth 
Annual Meeting, held at Chicago. The transao- 
tioiis of this, tho largest and most epfoyable 
gathering of American Nurserj’-men ever held, are 
full of mterest to every one engaged in horticult¬ 
ural pursuits. The front page presents an excel¬ 
lent portrait of the president, Mr. Myron A. Hunt, 
and another page is dedicated to the memory of the 
late Dr. John A. Warder. Among the most im¬ 
portant papers read and discussed arc. The 
Transportation Problem, byU. B. Pearsall; Un¬ 
certainties, bj' J. Jenkins; Wintering Roses, by 
S. T. Phoenix; Influence of Stock on Bud or Graft, 
