Archive image from page 559 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode00john Year: 1847 STO 566 STO manage them ; but gardeners, or their j to the ends of the house along the sidea assistants, cannot be so competent. j of the flues, where they unite to cast- ' The heating with hot water has | iron reservoirs at each end of the iiouse, none of the objections I have men-i g g', which reservoirs are each three tioned as belonging to flues and steam. 1 feet six inches long, one foot six inches The apparatus is simple, and not liable I wide, and one fo
Archive image from page 559 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode00john Year: 1847 STO 566 STO manage them ; but gardeners, or their j to the ends of the house along the sidea assistants, cannot be so competent. j of the flues, where they unite to cast- ' The heating with hot water has | iron reservoirs at each end of the iiouse, none of the objections I have men-i g g', which reservoirs are each three tioned as belonging to flues and steam. 1 feet six inches long, one foot six inches The apparatus is simple, and not liable I wide, and one foot eight inches deep, to get out of order. The boiler has 1 having iron covers. These reservoirs only a loose wooden cover, and no | arefilled with waterthatcommunicates, safety-valves are required. The fuel I by means of the pipes, with the water consumed is very moderate, and when once the water is heated, very little at- tention is wanted; for it retains its heat for many hours after the fire has gone out. ' The house is forty feet long and ten feet wide inside, heated by a boiler, a, placed in a recess in the centre of the back wall ; the fireplace under the wall is got at from a back shed, b. The boiler is two feet six inches long, one foot six inches wide, and one foot eight inches deep. From the end of the boiler proceed horizontally four cast- iron pipes of three inches and a half diameter ; two of them are joined to the boiler just above the bottmm, and the other two directly above these, and just below the surface of the water. The house is divided by glazed parti- tions into three compartments, d, e,f, for the convenience of forcing one part without the other. ' The middle compartment is two lights in width, and the other two have four lights each. ' The pipes from the boiler go hori- zontally to the front of the house, where one upper and one lower pipe branch n the boiler. ' When the boiler, pipes, and reser- voirs are filled, and a fire lighted under the boiler, t
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