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 52
es or bricks. Hot water is preferred to steam, as causing less expansion,and consequently less risk of derangement in the conducting pipes. The massof stones, when once heated, will be several days in parting with that heat,unless in the case of heavy rains ; so that, throughout the summer, the… … thus heated, melons, pine-apples, bananas, and a variety of other tropical fruitsand flowers can be grown in the summer season, as if they were in theirnative country; the only evils to be guarded against being high winds andhail storms. Opposite the fountain there is an open loggia with a seat;…
