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 315
pparatus, not only because it may be adoptedin some poultry establishments, as we think, may be used for hatching silk-worms, and probably for germinating rare seeds or striking cuttings in a glasscase, but as furnishing young gardeners of ingenuity with ideas for unfore-seen inventions and… … rearing the chickens, tubes (d) for circulating tlie hot water, a supply tubeand funnel (e), and a safety tube (/). Supposing the water heated in theboiler, it will rise by its specific levity through the tube a d, move pro-gressively through all the tubes, and return again to the boiler by the…