. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. S TO 566 S TO manage them; but gardeners, or their assistants, cannot be so competent. " The heating with hot water has none of the objections I have men- tioned as belonging to flues and steam. The apparatus is simple, and not liable to get out of order. The boiler has only a loose wooden cover, and no safety-valves are required. The fuel consumed is very moderate, and when once the water is heated, very little at- tention is wanted; for it retains its heat for many hours after the fire has gone out. " The house is forty feet long and t
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. S TO 566 S TO manage them; but gardeners, or their assistants, cannot be so competent. " The heating with hot water has none of the objections I have men- tioned as belonging to flues and steam. The apparatus is simple, and not liable to get out of order. The boiler has only a loose wooden cover, and no safety-valves are required. The fuel consumed is very moderate, and when once the water is heated, very little at- tention is wanted; for it retains its heat for many hours after the fire has gone out. " The house is forty feet long and ten feet wide inside, heated by a boiler, a, placed in a recess in the centre of the back wall; the fireplace under the wall is got at from a back shed, b. The boiler is two feet six inches long, one foot six inches wide, and one foot eight inches deep. From the end of the boiler proceed horizontally four cast- iron pipes of three inches and a half diameter ; two of them are joined to the boiler just above the bottom, and the other two directly above these, and just below the surface of the water. The house is divided by glazed parti- tions into three compartments, d, e,f, for the'convenience of forcing one part without the other. " The middle compartment is two lights in width, and the other two have four lights each. " The pipes from the boiler go hori- zontally to the front of the house, where one upper and one lower pipe branch to the east compartment, and other two pipes to the west, and are carried to the ends of the house along the sides of the flues, where they unite to cast- iron reservoirs at each end of the house, g g, which reservoirs are each three feet six inches long, one foot six inches wide, and one foot eight inches deep, having iron covers. These reservoirs are filled with water that communicates, by means of the pipes, with the water in the boiler. " When the boiler, pipes, and reser- voirs are filled, and a fire lighted under the boiler, the h
Size: 2148px × 1164px
Photo credit: © Paul Fearn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectgardening, bookyear18
