. An encyclopædia of gardening; . extremely well adapted. A few observations on Sir improvements on it, proposed by Knight, were made byNeill (Edin. Encyc. art. iJo7-i.) and the next in order by us inRemarks on the Construction of Hot-houses, &c. 1817. A yeai* be-fore (1816) we had invented a wrought-iron sash-bar, the sectionof which (fig. 252, a) is not more than half an inch wide,and a half bar (fig. 252. b) equally Hght (a specimen of both ofwhich was presented to the Hort. Soc. in May 1816.); and in1818 we completed a considerable erection of glass roofs atBayswater (fg. 253.), on t
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . extremely well adapted. A few observations on Sir improvements on it, proposed by Knight, were made byNeill (Edin. Encyc. art. iJo7-i.) and the next in order by us inRemarks on the Construction of Hot-houses, &c. 1817. A yeai* be-fore (1816) we had invented a wrought-iron sash-bar, the sectionof which (fig. 252, a) is not more than half an inch wide,and a half bar (fig. 252. b) equally Hght (a specimen of both ofwhich was presented to the Hort. Soc. in May 1816.); and in1818 we completed a considerable erection of glass roofs atBayswater (fg. 253.), on the curvilinear principle, the first, webelieve, attempted in Britain. The object of such a junctionof different curvatures in the Bayswater example is to show, Mackenzies plan,25i and. Book III. FORMS OF HOT-HOUSE ROOFS. 315 that, in regard to form, the strength and tenacity of the iron bar, and the proper ch^iceof shape in the panes of glass, admits of every conceivable variety of glazed this w^e have completely succeeded, without in the least interfering with the objectsof culture. To render all these improvements available by the public, as matters of trade,we transferred, in 1818, our right in the invention of the bar to efficient tradesmen (W. andD. Bailey, 272. Holborn, London), who have since, from our plans, constructed in a mostexcellent style of workmanship, the curvilinear houses in different parts of the country,of which we have already given a list and description. (1587.)
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