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On October 3, 1958, a reproduction of a drawing of the charcoal wagon used for heating glasshouses in 1885 was seen at the Oxford Botanic Garden. This wagon was made up of iron lattice bars built to carry glowing charcoal. It was used to distribute heat during severe weather by placing first in one corner and then another and periodically drawing to and fro through the house for several minutes. Despite heating difficulties there are specimens which have survived for many years in the garden, such as the papyrus, a water plant found in the Nile from which the ancient Egyptians made their paper. A new oil-fired boiler apparatus has been installed during the summer, now in use for heating the big range of glasshouses.On October 3, 1958, a reproduction of a drawing of the charcoal wagon used for heating glasshouses in 1885 was seen at the Oxford Botanic Garden. This wagon was made up of iron lattice bars built to carry glowing charcoal. It was used to distribute heat during severe weather by placing first in one corner and then another and periodically drawing to and fro through the house for several minutes. Despite heating difficulties there are specimens which have survived for many years in the garden, such as the papyrus, a water plant found in the Nile from which the ancient Egyptians made their paper. A new oil-fired boiler apparatus has been installed during the summer, now in use for heating the big range of glasshouses.
Dimensions: 20.4 x 20.4 cm
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THE OXFORD HEATING APPARATUS THE GLASS-HOUSES O
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Ab See on stige om te O Reproduction of a drawing of the charcoal wagon used for heating glasshouses, which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1885. Oil-fired boilers now in use in big range of glasshouses was a small They were lean-to construc-winter of 1947 the Cherwell rose tions on either side of the so high that the boiler fires ANOTHER landmark in were put out. the long history of Danby Gate. To safeguard against any Heating was primitive in the the Oxford Botanic Gar- den (founded in 1621) is early conservatories and glass-repetition the new boilers have four wheeled than the oid ones-two feet the installation of oil-fired houses. The Oxford apparatus been installed five feet higher Despite heating difficulties boilers for heating the wagon of iron lattice bars built above the previous flood level. there are specimens which have big range of glasshouses. to carry glowing charcoal. In severe weather it was survived for many years, such placed first in one corner and as the papyrus, a water plant The new apparatus, in- stalled during the sum-then another, and periodically found in the Nile from which drawn to and fro through the the ancient Egyptians made mer, is now in use. house for several minutes to their paper. It was first planted The oldest garden of its kind distribute the heat a warm job in the Water Lily House in 1841. Banana plants in the same winter’s night for a in Britain had small glass-01 houses as long ago as 1710, but gardener. it was not until 1734 that the According to a note in the house have produced ripe first comparatively large Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1885, in on many occasions in the last 70 wooden greenhouses were builts which the accompanying illus- tration also appeared, apparatus was in use within The writer living memory. Fadded, “The world has pro- gressed since then.” a fruit years. this seen Heavy loss made up One of the heaviest losses of plants in the glasshouses re- corded in any year was due not to falling temperatures, but the strange generosity of a pro- fessor of botany. of Idea from Holland There is still to be structural evidence flue heating having R. T. Gunther, Fellow of smoke-Magdalen and author of the been used comprehensive book about Ox- also at the Botanic Garden be- ford gardens published in 1912, fore the relatively modern was still so indignant about that system of hot water pipes was loss that he added on installed 3.1 OCT 1958 23
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