. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. l of tank connects by two small gas pipes, oneon each side of the frame, inside, with a woodenwater tank at uiqier end. The Tomato plants,contaiiaeci in Hats, are placed between the twopipes, lea\ing a few inches of space iietween sideand flats. Whenever the weather turns cold, ora late frost is expected, Mr. Jerseyman starts theAre in the furnace, and furnishes heat enoughto the hotbed by meaus of the small pipes to in-sure the safety of the plants. But it is certainlytrue
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. l of tank connects by two small gas pipes, oneon each side of the frame, inside, with a woodenwater tank at uiqier end. The Tomato plants,contaiiaeci in Hats, are placed between the twopipes, lea\ing a few inches of space iietween sideand flats. Whenever the weather turns cold, ora late frost is expected, Mr. Jerseyman starts theAre in the furnace, and furnishes heat enoughto the hotbed by meaus of the small pipes to in-sure the safety of the plants. But it is certainlytrue that much waste steam of factories andmills might be used in beating greenhouses andhotbeds with very little extra expense. Mr. Root, in a recent number of Gleanings, sajsthat for years he has been feeling uneasy when-ever he sees steam i>utRug out into the ojien airfrom any kind of steam mills, factories, etc. Hehas felt uneasy that this vast quantity of heatshould not be utilized for warming buildings, orin the spring and winter for heating the groundand raising plants. The engine that runs our. THE WISTARIA IN A POT. See page 238. printing press and carries the dynamo for ourelectric lights is only about 150 feet from mynew hotbed. When the bed was made, I laid afour-inch tile about a foot under ground,through its whole length, right in the center ofthe bed. Then with a two-inch iron pipe the ex-haust steam from the aforesaid engine was sentinto this four-inch tile. I soon found the steamwas healing the whole bed, with a large I have given it another line of tile about 200feet long. It has not yet come to the end of thislatter line, but during this spring it has producedthe most beautiful and luxuriant growth ofRhubarb and Strawberry plants that I ever sawin my life. Altogether it seems that more ex_periments should be made with some such meth-ods of heating hotbeds I have never been quitesatisfied with manure as fuel. It is too uncertainand refuses to com
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