. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. cases fermenting litter thrown in. A great improvement on this species of pit has been made by J. West, of Castle Ash- by, Northamptonshire. The principle of the improvement is the facilitating the passage of the heat from the vault to the bed of earth o
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. cases fermenting litter thrown in. A great improvement on this species of pit has been made by J. West, of Castle Ash- by, Northamptonshire. The principle of the improvement is the facilitating the passage of the heat from the vault to the bed of earth over it by sub- stituting a thin floor of boards or slates, or wattled hurdle, for brick-work ; the walls are also flued, and the heat supplied is that of fermenting dung, litter, weeds, &e. On the whole it seems an excellent improvement. Nine years' expe- rience enable its inventor to recommend it for neatness of appearance, the power of regulating the heat to the greatest nicety, and for forcing asparagus, strawberries, and the most delicate kind of cucumbers. By raising the walls of the pit higher above the earth, it is evident it would answer equally well for growing pines, or forcing shrubs, or any other purpose to which pits are applied. 1547. I?i West's pit the dung is placed in a chamber (e) three feet and a half deep, being about eighteen inches below the surface-line ; the walls (g) which surround it are nine-inch brick-work ; both on the front and at the back of the chamber are two openings (n), about two feet six inches square each, with moveable doors through which the dung is introduced ; the doors fit at bottom into grooves (6), and are fastened by a wooden pin and staple at top. , In front of the doors, is a small area (c) sunk in the ground, surrounded by a curb of wood, by which the introduction or removal of the dung is facilitated. Along the centre of the chamber is a bar (d), which serves as a guide for packing the dung ; and across the top, at interval
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