As a partial response to Mr. Breitmeyer's article on Steam Heating, I would submit for your perusal a few extracts from a letter written by John Taylor, Esq., of Bayside, L. I., whose glass covers an area of 50,000 square feet, and whose heating apparatus heats his glass, his large dwelling-house 500 feet from the boilers and also his stable, which is about 300 feet from the boilers. I thought the testimony which he presents would be the best argument that could be offered to capsize the unfortunate Detroit gentleman. The cases are nearly parallel and the results rather diverse.

" To Horticulturists or persons using Greenhouses :

"The Exeter Machine works have during the past summer (1882) put into my greenhouses at Bayside, L. I., which are very extensive, the heating apparatus. It works on the low pressure system, the pressure seldom being above five pounds and sometimes no perceptible pressure. This has been working through one season; was an experiment so far as steam heating was concerned; was an experiment as to the economical and convenient management of the steam, and as to its working at low pressure; but in every respect, so far as 1 have been able to discover, it is a success.

" Steam as a means for warming greenhouses I consider the best known; it being more completely under the control of the gardener, and doing away with the necessity of numerous fires. I have no hesitation in saying that in all large establishments steam will be a necessity.

John Taylor."

Discussions On Steam Heating

We have given more than usual space to the steam heating question. There are some discussions we are glad of some excuse to cut short - this is not one of them. The subject has an immense interest. Just how far steam can be used profitably, and just what are its strong points and its weak points, have not yet been made as plain as they will yet be, and we fancy there will be room for good papers drawn from intelligent experience for some time to come. We shall, however, for want of space in justice to other topics, hold back those essays which merely offer the writer's opinions.