. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. matter of constructing ahot-water boiler after ideas of his in such cases the claim is madethat the boiler costs less money than thecast iron ones of the regular makers. Toany one interested in this subject, the ac-companying engraving may be of some ser-vice. The flgure represents a boiler having aa single water-space between two tubularwalls of boiler plate. This space extendsaround both the fireplace and ashpit. Thegrate bars are placed about one-third wayup from the bot
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. matter of constructing ahot-water boiler after ideas of his in such cases the claim is madethat the boiler costs less money than thecast iron ones of the regular makers. Toany one interested in this subject, the ac-companying engraving may be of some ser-vice. The flgure represents a boiler having aa single water-space between two tubularwalls of boiler plate. This space extendsaround both the fireplace and ashpit. Thegrate bars are placed about one-third wayup from the bottom of the interior. Theflue-pipe leaves the boilers at a and returnsat h. This style of boiler can be used eitherin connection with a brick flue, as in theease of a saddle boiler, or by having thechimney pipe rise at the further end. Profitable Lettuce Forcing. J. W. OLDS, MENARD ILLS- My method of forcing Lettuce may be oddand unusual, but it pays. I use three green-houses, each 15x:H2 feet in size, and heatedwith hot air. Seedlings are raised in flatsK^ inches, and 4 inches in depth, at the. A WROUGHT IRON HOT-WATER BOILER- rate of about .WO plants per flat. Twenty orthirty days after sowing, when the plantsbegin to crowd, I prick them out in otherflats of same size, putting f).5 to the flat. Ithen set them in one-pound tin cans, andplace these in a flat which holds Itj cans,and measures 0x17 inches and one inch plants are then about two inchesapart. There they remain until set out, I89I. POPULAR GARDENING. 237 when about half grown, in my cloth green-house, which was somewhat illustrated inlast February No., page 84. I use it for firstcrop Lettuce, which seems to do better thanin a glass I follow the Lettucewith other plants, or Sweet Potato run these beds with success with tem-perature at .i above zero. I also set Lettuce plants from small cansIn beds or 3 lb. cans (I use several thousand)where I let them mature. In marketing my Le
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