. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 94 THE COTTAGE GARDENER. KOVEMIIER 23. to furnish onr readers with a plan of tank-heating. Dr. Green says:â *'I completed a plant-house nearly twelve months since, -10 feet long, 1-t feet wide; hack wall 17 feet high, front wall 7 feet. This is furnished with hot- torn heat hy means of a hot-water tank, covered with slate, on which is a layer of compost of Vi inclics thick, in whicli the plants are either planted or plunged. The atmospheric heat is contributed by means of a 4-inch iron pipe passing all round the tank externally, and the whole is he
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. 94 THE COTTAGE GARDENER. KOVEMIIER 23. to furnish onr readers with a plan of tank-heating. Dr. Green says:â *'I completed a plant-house nearly twelve months since, -10 feet long, 1-t feet wide; hack wall 17 feet high, front wall 7 feet. This is furnished with hot- torn heat hy means of a hot-water tank, covered with slate, on which is a layer of compost of Vi inclics thick, in whicli the plants are either planted or plunged. The atmospheric heat is contributed by means of a 4-inch iron pipe passing all round the tank externally, and the whole is heated by one coni- cal boiler; tbusâ. T, the tank ; B, the boiler ; A, the flow-pipe ; R, the rotum-pipe ; S S, a flow and return pipe, which can be substituted when it is wished to circulate hot water in the tank only. Tlie bed over the tank contains stove plants, the shelves greenhouse plants, the front trellis and back wall ])each and apricot trees, the rafters vines, and orchidctC are suspended. As yet, ah have thriven ania/ingly: but now comes the winter, and in this midtum in jfrtrvo 1 fear that suHicient lieat for my stove plants may injure the vines and peaches, &c. At present my heat is Ol)° during the day and 50° at night. Can I reduce it still more, and liow far, with safety to tlie stove plants? In order that you maybe able to inform )iic, 1 annex a list of the plants in the tank-bed, &C: Abrus Precatorius. Allamanda Cathartica. AinarylliK (var.). AphelandfA cri^tata. yiLschynanthus rvar.). Astrapo-a WiiUiehii. Kcponia fnchflioirie«. (â atth-y:i Fnrbrsii. Chrysoplij Mum niacrophylluni. t'of-euluhii uvilcra. Coffa-a Arabiea. (^olumnea spIendenH. Combrctum grandillcruin. Coukia punctata. Cypripedia (; Dendrobium (var.). Dipladenia (var.). Dracfcna terininalisi Kpidendrum (var.). Kianthemum Pulchellum. Kugenia ICdulia. Kuphorbia splendena. Kicus Klastiea. I'Vanciscca hydrangiforuiiH. (lariicnia Stanleyana. Florida, (iesncria fvar.). (Jungora
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