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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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are necessarily compelled to use much more artificial I heat than is requireil in cither private gardens or general nurseries. The houses here are well piped— all 4 inch : twenty-one of them, each of the same size, 130 feet long by 11 feet wide, have six rows of pipe, or 840 feet each—the wider houses proportionately I more ; there is in all 40,000 feet, or over 74 miles. Much has recently been said about garden boilers, and many who take an interest in the subject will no doubt feel curious to know how many, and what description of boiler is used. There are only seven, consequently they have over I mile and 100 yards each. I had an opportunity of seeing and examining how they did their work after dark during the severe frost last month, and can vouch that these immense lengths of piping were so hot that the hand could not be borne upon them for a moment; in fact, any one acquainted with the heating of garden structures could not fail the moment he entered the houses to notice the
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Fig. 45.—conservatory at eagle cliff, greenhithe, (see r. 236.) tudinal piece or spout, no purlines, brackets, or cross-stays, upright or other supports, except in a few of thewidest houses ; nothing, in fact, inside or out, from endto end of these long houses, but the thin bars and theglass, which is bedded in putty, and puttied at thetop as well, all as close and tight-fitting as can be.The sides consist of a single upright square of glasswhich meets the lowermost square in the roof, thebottom of which just rests on the upper edge of theside square, and overlaps it slightly so as to throw offthe water which is caught by the spout that, insteadof being in its usual place at the eave, is fixed to thewall plate. At the ridge of the houses the arrange-ment is similar, the top squares at one side comingup a little higher than those at the opposite side ofthe roof and also slightly overlapping them ; theselaps at both the ridge and the eaves are, like thewhole, as tight as possible. The

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