The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . to plant one half of one of the steam-pits with plants, not in pots, but in a bed of soil made up for them, and tofruit them the summer after the next. The steam, he says, is admittedinto the chamber, among the stones, only an hour and a half every forty-eight, which he finds to be quite sufficient to keep up the bottom heat ashigh as is necessary. During the winter, he has not admitted the steam forso long a period, having only kept the heat to the bottom of the pots from75° to 80°; but now, as he wishes to start the plant
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . to plant one half of one of the steam-pits with plants, not in pots, but in a bed of soil made up for them, and tofruit them the summer after the next. The steam, he says, is admittedinto the chamber, among the stones, only an hour and a half every forty-eight, which he finds to be quite sufficient to keep up the bottom heat ashigh as is necessary. During the winter, he has not admitted the steam forso long a period, having only kept the heat to the bottom of the pots from75° to 80°; but now, as he wishes to start the plants into fruit, he intendsto raise it to 90°. The following description of a plan and section of a set ofpits, erected, in 1824, for Colonel Paterson, Cunnoquhie, forthe growth of melons, but which will serve equally well forthat of pines, or other hot-house plants, is dated March,1829: — The same letters of reference apply to the corresponding parts, bothin the ground plan (^g. 33.) and the section (Jtg. 36.). 332 Memoirs of the Calcdoninn llorlicuUnral A B c u, The external walls of the pits, built of droved ashlar, 8 In the upper course of ashlar, on both sides, arc gutters for carryingort the rain-water from the roof sashes. The drawing is 10 ft. over thewalls. E, An elevated walk, with steps,on which the gardener may stand withcase, and do any work in the pits, v, a step for the same purpose, g, apaved or gravelled walk. u I K I,, Wall of stoam-chamlicr \\ in. thick, of square stock bricks,closely jointed with Roman cement. Memoirs ojthe Caledonian JJorticuUural Socuiij. 333
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