Book/Printed Material A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses;
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Image 1 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses;- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 2 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; Jp c /8fO- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
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Image 3 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses;- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
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Image 4 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses;- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
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Image 9 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION, HEATING, AND VENTILATION OP HOT-HOUSES; INCLUDING CONSERVATORIES, GREEN-HOUSES, GRAPERIES, AND OTHER KINDS OF HOKTICULTURAL STRUCTURES. WITH PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR MANAGEMENT. IN REGARD TO LIGHT, HEAT, AND...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 10 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; BottCttd according to Act ofCongreM, in tha yatt ISK^ By Johk p. Jbwbtt k, Co., to tkt OltfK a UfAce of the District Court of the Diatrict of l^i ay traosfar frcr...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 11 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; •ft SEjbis STteattse, miOHKD Ta PROMOTE THE ADVANCEJIENT OF EXOTIC BuitflCVLIVSUi, U» WHICH HE IS A ZEALOUS PATRON AND AimiR«R, T BIB OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT 3ER71MT THE AUTHOR.- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 12 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses;- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
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Image 13 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; PREFACE. Having for many years past devoted my attention to the subjects treated of in this work, and from the general call for appliable information thereon, I have been induced to give...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 14 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; VI PREFACE. managing horticultural structures, render the worka of that period of little value to gardeners at the present day. I have here given all the latest im- provements and most approved...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 15 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; INTRODUCTION. The object of the following treatise is chiefly to lay befow its readers a series of facts and observations relating to the con- struction and general management of all kinds of...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 16 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 8 INTRODUCTION. It is doubtful if any branch of horticulture has received less aid from science than that which forms the subject of the present work. Science has indeed been brought to...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 17 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; INTRODnCTION. 9 success is in proportion to the amount of practical experience founded upon a scientific basis. Whatever causes exist to prevent the operations of gardening from being carried out on scientific...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 18 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 10 INTRODUCTION. were built, on account of a deficiency of knowledge on the part of those who superintended their erection. It is a common error for gardeners, and others, who erect glazed...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 19 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; I^ TRODUCTION. ).l him. It is easy to perceive that a gardener must not on.y know how X\i io, but have his reasons for doing. A man who continues to do his...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 20 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 12 INTRODUCTION. ventilation, including some valuable investigations of the piyii* iological effects of the atmosphere, under different circumstance.*, and at different temperatures. Many of our remarks nave assumed a greater length than...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 21 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; PART 1. CONSTRUCTION OP HOT-HOUSES. SECTION I. SITUATION. 1. Site ami position. Before proceeding to details regard- ing the structures themselves, it will be necessary to consider, briefly, the situation on which...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 22 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 14 SITUATION. The climate, and especially the prevailing winds of the locality should be studied attentively, in order to anticipate their changes, and avoid, as far as possible, their injurious effects. No...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 23 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; SITUATION. 15 compare it with another, resting upon the green, glossy foHnge of luxuriant trees towering above them, and these again reflect- ing their irregular outlines against the cloudless horizon behind them,...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 24 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 16 SITUATION. villa, when it is finished and ornamented as a terrace should be, i. e., with vases, urns, c., of sizes and forms harmonizing properly with the architecture of the building....- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 25 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; SITUATION. 17 Btructures, constitute the harmonizing link between art in the building, and nature in the grounds. The latter are neither artistical nor natural Let the reader fancy to himself a horticultural...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 26 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 18 SITUATION. large trees, and of raising them where they do not already exist. A beautiful writer on this subject has observed, that green- houses in the country, without trees about them,...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 27 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; SITUATION. 19 the structure, it would be most desirable to coi.vey it through the interior of the house, in a kind of rill, or small stream, run- ning through a shallow channel,...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 28 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 20 SITUATION. dentalis, which had its leaves entirely destroyed, after they were fully expanded, and are now strewed upon the grass be- neath. This tree, with various others that shared the same...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 29 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; SITUATION. 2\ hot-houses, even during the early part of summer, except fire heat be maintained, sometimes fall exceedingly low at night, and become cold and chilly, with the aqueous vapors contained in...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 30 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 92 SITUATION. sider it another fact in favor of a south-eastern aspect, as the sun s rays will thus be made to strike the roof more obliquely and will be less likely...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 31 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; SITUATION. 23 western aspect for late nouses, and these facts have regulated the erection of some extensive houses with which we are ac- quainted. In this country, however, hot-houses are seldom erected...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 32 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 24 SITUATION, must be regulated by the position of the building, or the fancy of the architect. These are deplorable erections, generally; nine tenths of them unsuitable, in the superlative degree, not...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 33 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; SECTION II. DESIGN. 1. General Principles. To ascertain principles of actioOj ll is always necessary to begin by considering- the end in view. The object or end of hot-houses is to form...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 34 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 26 DESIGN. breadth of tl.e Uinted States; and the chief reason why we see horticultural structures erected so numerously in this country, in violation of the first principles of plant culture, is...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 35 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; DESIGN. 27 very fitting, and, perhaps, beautiful, in a habitation for man or for domestic animals, is by no means fitting, and consequently not beautiful, in a habitation for plants. Such, however,...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 36 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 28 DESIGN. as with the able and excellent gardener who has managed it fol many years, and who finds it impossible to grow plants within, and has long since given up the...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 37 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; DESIGN. S9 2. Light. In erecting horticultural structures of any description, the first and decidedly the nost important object to be kept in view, is the introduction of light and really, though...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 38 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; so DESIGN. acting in some degree like the triangular prism, partially decom* poses or deranges the order of the rays. The theory of the transmission of light through transparent bodies is derived...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 39 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; DESIGN. 31 i. e,, plants that are cultivated solely either for their flowers or for their fruit. The exact manner in which light acts upon plants has been studied by Dr. Daubeny,...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850
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Image 40 of A practical treatise on the construction, heating, and ventilation of hothouses; 32 DESIGN. ous to the early stages of vegetation, Mr. Hunt believes that, in the more advanced periods of growth, they become essential to the formation of woody fibre. (2.) Light which...- Contributor: Leuchars, Robert B.
- Date: 1850