. 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. 266 a b c d e f g 1628. Glazing with a leaden lap (265. a) was formerly practised with a view of ex- cluding the air by a more permanent material than putty. The sort of lap made use of, is that used by glaziers in lattice-work windows {Jig. 266. a.) The
. 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. 266 a b c d e f g 1628. Glazing with a leaden lap (265. a) was formerly practised with a view of ex- cluding the air by a more permanent material than putty. The sort of lap made use of, is that used by glaziers in lattice-work windows {Jig. 266. a.) The panes being inserted in the grooves, formed in the edges of the lap, are of course all in one plane, and the water in running down either the outside or inside of the roof, must ac- cumulate on the upper edge of each riband or cross- string of lead, and so penetrate between it and the glass, and drop on the plants in the house. This indeed forms the chief objection to the leaden lap, which is now deservedly exploded. .1629. An imjrroved form of lead lap (Jig. 266. b) consists in using slips of lead rolled so thin as not to be thicker than fine drawing paper, in connection with putty, and for the sole purpose of retaining it in its place. It is never allowed to project beyond the exterior edges of the glass, so that it readily permits the descent of the water. Its thinness renders it easily manageable, and the time employed in filling up such laps, when one man is stationed outside the glass and another within, is not much more than that occupied in glazing a roof with the common putty lap. Such lead laps may either have a small opening in the middle, or at the angles, and are equally applicable to any of the modes of glazing to be described. The lead is rolled to any width, and dipt or cut to the size wanted as Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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