The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . , of Ghent. ICE-HOUSES IN SHORT time before I left England, you published in. the Gardeners Chronicle a number of letters and plansfor the construction of ice-houses, but, as far as I canremeocber, nothing at ell resembhng the Chinese one,which I shall now describe to you. On the left hank ofthe Ningpo river, proceeding upwards from the townand forts of Chinghai, and iu various other parts in thenorth of China, I have met with these ice-houses. When1 inspected them for the first time,last winter (1843), and situation
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . , of Ghent. ICE-HOUSES IN SHORT time before I left England, you published in. the Gardeners Chronicle a number of letters and plansfor the construction of ice-houses, but, as far as I canremeocber, nothing at ell resembhng the Chinese one,which I shall now describe to you. On the left hank ofthe Ningpo river, proceeding upwards from the townand forts of Chinghai, and iu various other parts in thenorth of China, I have met with these ice-houses. When1 inspected them for the first time,last winter (1843), and situation differed so much from what Ihad been accustomed to consider the essentials of an ice-house at home, that I had great doubts of their effi-ciency ; but at the present time, which is the end ofAugust, 1844, many of these houses are yet full of ice,and seem to answer the end most admirably. You areprobably aware, from my former descriptions of thecountry, that the town of Ningpo is built in the midstof a level plain, from 20 to 30 miles across. These. It is now, I think, a question whether we could notbuild ice-housep at less expense, and more efficient, uponthe Chinese plan than upon the old under-ground sys-tem common in England. The accompanying sketch will enable you to form an idea of the appearance whichthese ice-houses present to the traveller, in going up theNingpo river.—II. Fortune, Ningpo-foo, August, 1844. Uome CorreSpondenCS. , dition, and the neighbouring farmers make a similar Potato Blight.—In reference to my communication report. I observe here that the centre of the plots hason this subject fp. 561) I think it well to add that been first affected; that the haulm smells remarkablysince that time the type has somewhat modified. Though like new-made hay, and that the whole of the mischiefthe affection is almost universal, and is still essentially | above-ground is done in the course of 3 or 4 days. I canr-the same as I at first described it, it does not now run
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