. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. ound thisstove lamp inferior in make and workmanshipto the fine lamps by the same maker, of whichI have burned seven for two years without acci-dent, breakdown, or smell, using petroleum ofthe best quality. I should like to hear if anyonehas been able to get heat up to 60° or even 55°F. from one of these stoves when the thermom-eter was at freezing point. I should also liketo elicit what is the best and cheapest smalland effectual heating apparatus for such a houseas mine, not wanted for forcing anything. Heating Small Conservatories. — Theincreasin
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. ound thisstove lamp inferior in make and workmanshipto the fine lamps by the same maker, of whichI have burned seven for two years without acci-dent, breakdown, or smell, using petroleum ofthe best quality. I should like to hear if anyonehas been able to get heat up to 60° or even 55°F. from one of these stoves when the thermom-eter was at freezing point. I should also liketo elicit what is the best and cheapest smalland effectual heating apparatus for such a houseas mine, not wanted for forcing anything. Heating Small Conservatories. — Theincreasing taste for flowers about dwellingscalls for better means of heating than hashitherto been effected. Almost all attemptsto use the regular house heaters fail; not be-cause the air from the heater is dry, but becauseof sulphuretted gases. As these conservatoriesare only with plants in winter, and are thrownopen in summer, separate and permanent heat-ers are undesirable. There is nothing betterthan a portable hot water boiler; which could. be put up in a few minutes, and taken downwhen not wanted. Looking through our advertising colums wenote many excellent forms of boilers for largework. Some of them portable, but none thatseems just what is needed for these little con-servatories and window attachments; small,effective and cheap. We give the accompanyingfrom an English source, which seems something 1880.] AND HORTICULTURIST. 141 like what we in America want. Here we havea furnace and boiler combined, with twenty feetof four-inch pipe, and all the necessary fittingscomplete for $25. It may be that there is al-ready some contrivances of the kind in existencein our country. If tlaere is, it would, we think,be profitable to advertise them. We are satis-fied that if some cheap and easily managedheating apparatus like this were introduced. small greenhouse or bay window plant culturewould rapidly increase. There is no one butlikes flowers about the house, if it be not too in-conv
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