. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same. Greenhouses. 198 GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING. Having lately had some experience with two of these boilers I can recommend them, and the smaller sizes in particular, as fulfilling what is claimed for them admirably. The "Loughborough " boilers (Kg. 137),
. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same. Greenhouses. 198 GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING. Having lately had some experience with two of these boilers I can recommend them, and the smaller sizes in particular, as fulfilling what is claimed for them admirably. The "Loughborough " boilers (Kg. 137), which are of a horse-shoe shape, and are constructed to be built into the end or front wall of a small greenhouse, were much in vogue at one time, and a good many thousands are in use. They. Fig. 137. certainly possess some undoubted advantages, one of which is that a considerable proportion of the heat radiated by the boiler itself is not wasted outside, but is utilized inside the house, while they also have a very neat appearance, and for small structures are undoubtedly an improvement on the older forms. Their success of course induced a host of imitations, among which may be mentionted he. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ravenscroft, B. C. London, L. U. Gill; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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