The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 270
ceive the plants; c c, small gratings to admit air, and to excludevermin; d d^ brick pillars to receive the tiles. This pit was erected for heaths, and for rearing and preserv- R 4 248 Plan, Sfc, of a small span-roofed Pit, … ing the hardier species of green-house plants, intended to beplanted out in the open garden in the spring. The principalnovelties in it, I apprehend, consist in the method of admittingthe air at the bottom, which secuies the plants from dampingoff; the ease with which the lights are removed, being…
