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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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place,between the furnace bars and door, there is a piece of iron one foot wide, by oneto three long, which acts as a carbonising plate, and when the fire begins to burnstrong so as to heat the iron, nearly the whole of the smoke is consumed, , Figure 5, is a section of a boiler, with an additional flue surrounding the lowerpart of it, and used for large buildings, or when several houses are required to beheated from the same boiler. (To be continued). GARDEN ORNAMENTS. In some of our late numbers we have adverted to certain architectural ansculptured ornaments wdiich are considered suitable for the embellishment of gar-dens, or to enrich the scenery of the dressed grounds in the vicinity of noblemen^sor gentlemens residences. But where architectural or sculptured edifices cannotbe introduced with propriety by reason of the limited space of garden, or for otherreasons, there are other substitutes which may very well be admitted, and whichwould answer the same purpose. GARDEN ORNAMENTS
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GARDEN ORNAMENTS. 41 The Chinese are a people who of all others not only cultivate fine floweringplants, but have a )mde in growing them in curious and costly porcelain vessels.This seems to have been a very general custom among the nations of southern andeastern Asia; for in the oldest prints of pictures of oriental scenery, we often seerepresented flowering or fruiting plants placed in pots of various shapes. Vessels forthis or any other domestic purpose were manufactured by the potter, whose art wasone of the earliest and most useful of the primitive trades. In those countrieswhich were first inhabited by mankind, many of the natural productions requiredthe vessels of the potter for containing and preserving them. Milk and honey,wine and oil, were, with corn and dried fruit, the principal ingredients of the foodof man in those days; and various kinds of air and water-tight vessels for theseviands were particularly requisite. Consequently the trade of the potter, like allothers, adv

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