. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. intervals, intowhich are placed the flower holders, con-sisting of glass or metal tubes. The holdersare securely held, there is no possibility ofthem tipping over, however top-heavy theflowers may be, .and never a drop of watercan be spilled. The expense of the equip-ment is little if any more than that of anoutfit of exhibition vases. and many disadvantages, especially so faras the control of heat is concerned. In someinstances the waste steam of factories canbe and Is now being utili
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. intervals, intowhich are placed the flower holders, con-sisting of glass or metal tubes. The holdersare securely held, there is no possibility ofthem tipping over, however top-heavy theflowers may be, .and never a drop of watercan be spilled. The expense of the equip-ment is little if any more than that of anoutfit of exhibition vases. and many disadvantages, especially so faras the control of heat is concerned. In someinstances the waste steam of factories canbe and Is now being utilized for heatinghot-beds. Mr. A. I. Root, of Medina, O.,for Instance, has a large plant of this the hot-beds are very extensive,however, we would consider hot water pre-ferable to steam heating, as It undoubtedlyIs for heating small greenhouses. Prof. Budd, of the Iowa Experiment Station,now has a hot-bed heated by hot-water pipesin successful operation, and kindly gives usthe following description of It: Our hot-water hot-bed is a lean-to pit onthe north side of plant house. It is forty. STAGE FOR SHOWING FLOWERS. feet long and just wide enough to be cov-ered by common hot-bed sash, which inclineto the north. The pit Is enclosed by outerand two end brick walls three feet in height,banked with earth on the outside to the floor, covered with sand, is within eightinches of the top of the outer wall. Underthis is a pit two feet four inches in depth, inwhich are placed the four inch hot-waterpipes In a block, the two upper being flow,and the two lower return pipes. The flow and rettim pipes connect with asmall conical boiler—Hitchings No. 32—withInch and a quarter gas pipes. The neededheat of water is kept up with a closed draft,consuming coal very slowly. To run Itthrough the winter requires less than a tonof anthracite coal. The bed is used for rooting cuttings ofherbaceous plants, and during the winterfor rooting dormant cuttings of such shrubsas are
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