Theory and Practice, Applied to the Cultivation of the Cucumber in the Winter Season: To Which Is Added a Chapter on MelonsMoore, Thomas
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Theory and Practice, Applied to the Cultivation of the Cucumber in the Winter Season: To Which Is Added a Chapter on Melons
Moore, Thomas
Cucumbers
The cold air, after passing upwards through the chamber, escapes
at the front of the house, and ascends to the upper part of the house,
from whence it finds its way downwards near the back wall, and there again
enters the chamber, through openings provided for the purpose. The
circulation of the internal atmosphere would be thus facilitated and
accelerated, even without the admission of any current of external air,
for, of course, there is more or less of this kind of movement going on in
the atmosphere, wherever and in whatever form a source of artificial heat
is present. Another mode of combining internal atmospheric motion, with
ventilation, and by which the cold air is warmed before it reaches the
plants, has been practised with very marked success, in a vinery at
Park-hill, Streatham, Surrey; and I have described it in the _Journal of
the Horticultural Society_[1] as follows:--"This plan consists in passing
a zinc pipe, thickly perforated with small holes, from end to end of the
vinery, and exactly beneath the range of hot water pipes, which heat the
structure. In the outer [end] wall, communicating with this perforated
pipe by means of a kind of broad funnel, a register valve is fixed, by
which the admission of air can be regulated with the utmost nicety, or the
supply be shut off altogether: this valve is fixed a little below the
level of the perforated pipe. The action of this contrivance was evident
enough from the motion communicated to the foliage of the vines; and its
effects were apparent in the unusually healthy and vigorous appearance
they bore, until their period of ripening. In this case, sufficient
moisture was kept up by syringing the walls and pipes, wetting the
pathway, and by the use of evaporating troughs, placed on the metal pipes,
and kept constantly filled with water."
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