Archive image from page 560 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 S TO 565 —♦— STO of the tank. The bottom, as well as the sides of the tanks, are bolted to- gether by iron bars, five-eighths of an inch in thickness, passed through the wood, and screwed up as tightly as possible. Each tank is divided by an inch and a half elm board, and is co- vered with common roofing-slates — those that are generally called ' Prin- cesses,' twenty-four inches long and fourteen wide; the edges not cut square, but used just as purchased, and
Archive image from page 560 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 S TO 565 —♦— STO of the tank. The bottom, as well as the sides of the tanks, are bolted to- gether by iron bars, five-eighths of an inch in thickness, passed through the wood, and screwed up as tightly as possible. Each tank is divided by an inch and a half elm board, and is co- vered with common roofing-slates — those that are generally called ' Prin- cesses,' twenty-four inches long and fourteen wide; the edges not cut square, but used just as purchased, and the joints stopped merely with wetted clay: there is no fear of too much steam escaping into the house. ' As the divisions of tank b were fifteen inches wide, a small strip of oak is nailed on the inside of the tank, of sufficient thickness to allow the slates, which were fourteen inches wide, to reach across. Round the edges of the tanks is an inch board, eleven inches deep; and the plunging material is fine sand. The slates carry the weight of this sand, though eleven inches deep, with ease, not one of them having cracked. ' In a considerable part of tank b 1, rich mould is put instead of the sand, in which pines are planted without any pots, after the French mode. The tank holds twenty-two hogsheads; and the boiler, though a small one, is fully able to heat this quantity. The water, heat- ed to 114° or 115° of Fahrenheit, is high enough to keep the house at a temperature of 70° at night; and a mo- derate fire, kept up for five or six hours in the twenty-four, is abundantly suffi- cient.'—Gard. Chron. Dry Stove.—Formerly this was heat- ed by flues only, a stage for plants oc- cupying the place of the bark-pit in the moist stove. But modern science has suggested the far better mode of heat- ing by either steam or hot water. Of these two the latter is by far the most preferable. The following is the plan adopted at Elcot and has never been much improved:•— '
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