. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. MEL Fig. 99. 372 MEL. means of a saddle boiler, with four-inch pipes passing round the outside of the pit, which pipes are fitted with cast-iron troughs for holding water to regulate the moisture of the atmosphere. Be- neath the pit is an arched chamber, a, along the front of whicli runs the flue, '\ three or four inches deep h, imparting a slight degree of heat to i ing is best performed twice, four or five the soil above, and also serving to heat, days elapsing before the second inser- a series of arches, c, which run along tion ; this guards as
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. MEL Fig. 99. 372 MEL. means of a saddle boiler, with four-inch pipes passing round the outside of the pit, which pipes are fitted with cast-iron troughs for holding water to regulate the moisture of the atmosphere. Be- neath the pit is an arched chamber, a, along the front of whicli runs the flue, '\ three or four inches deep h, imparting a slight degree of heat to i ing is best performed twice, four or five the soil above, and also serving to heat, days elapsing before the second inser- a series of arches, c, which run along tion ; this guards as much as possible beneath the path, and are entered from against failure. The pots should be a house in front, d, and which are used > plunged by degrees, and not at once sowing before February is well ad- vanced, and more risk of failure incur- red. On the average, fifteen weeks elapse; on the shortest and coldest days of winter eighteen ; and as the spring advances it decreases to eleven or twelve; these periods necessarily varying in different years. The mode of sowing, managing the seedlings, pricking out, &c., being the same as with the cucumber, only that a few de- grees higher temperature is required, I refer the reader to that head. The pots in which the seed is sown should be Each sow- for forcing rhubarb, &c., in the winter. —Gard. Chron. Mr. Green has published the follow- ing excellent mode of heating a melon pit with hot water :— The annexed figure represents a down to the rim. Those for pricking into must be about five inches in di- ameter. The first usually performed in the seed-beds. Ridging out.—The soil must be two feet deep, and the plants inserted in the section of the pit: 1, 1, are the flow ! centre of each light, care being taken to pipes and the water troughs; 3, the ' remove them with as little injury as pos- pipes to fill the troughs; 4, the pipe by I sible to the roots. The removal should which the water is let outof the t
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