 | 1833 - 780 pages
...cucumbers which ever came under my notice were produced in it, and balsams 16 ft. in circumference, yet, for want of a proper substance against which to build the linings, and the almost entire destitution of means to supply heat by absorption and conduction, experience has taught... | |
 | 1833 - 776 pages
...cucumbers which ever came under my notice were produced in it, and balsams 16 ft. in circumference, yet, for want of a proper substance against which to build the linings, and the almost entire destitution of means to supply heat by absorption and conduction, experience has taught... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pages
...encumbers which ever came under his notice were produced in it, and Balsams sixteen feet in circumference, yet for want of a proper substance against which to build the linings, and the almost entire destitution of means to supply heat by absorbtion and conduction, experience has taught... | |
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... defective, two or three years before Mr. Knight recommended it. Platforms, supported by posts or brick piers, were tried for several years ; and of this kind of bed Mr. Smith observes, " although the best cucumbers which ever came under my notice... 