aving another pipe to allow the condensed
water to run off, which may be preserved as distilled water, and is
valuable for many purposes. The heat arising from the condensation is
communicated to the water in the outer vessel, the hottest being at the
top, where the mouth of the exit-pipe is placed. When, therefore, a
portion of hot water is drawn from the cock, the pipe of which comes
from the top of the vessel immediately under the cover, an equal
quantity comes in at the bottom from the reservoir. This useful
apparatus is the invention of an ingenious economist of Derby, and is
at present in use in his kitchen. The art of boiling vegetables of all
kinds in steam instead of water, might probably be managed to advantage,
as a greater degree of heat might be thus given them, by contriving to
increase the heat of the steam after it has left the water; and thus the
vegetable mucilage in roots and seeds, as in potatoes and flour
puddings, as well as in their leaves, stems, and flower-cups, might be
rendered probably more nutritive, and perhaps more palatable; but that
many of the leaves of vegetables, as the summits of cabbage-sprouts,
lose their green colour by being boiled in steam, and look like blanched
vegetables. Steam has likewise lately been applied in gardening to the
purpose of forcing plants of different kinds in the winter season, in
order to have their produce at an early period, as to the cucumber, and
some other vegetables of a somewhat similar nature; but the exact manner
of its application in this intention, so far as we know, has not yet
been communicated to the public; it is, however, by some mode of flues,
pipes, and other contrivances for conveying and containing it, so as
that its heat may be uninterruptedly, equally, and regularly afforded to
the roots of the plants which it is designed to push forward into the
fruiting state. It is said to have been used in some instances in
different parts of Lancashire with great success. But how far the
expense and advantage of such a method may admit of and encourage its
being introduced into general practice, have not, probably, yet been
well or fully ascertained. If it should be found capable of perfectly
succeeding in this use, on more full and correct experience, it will,
however, constitute not only a neat and clean, but an elegant mode of
forcing plants into fruit at early seasons.

STEAMED POTATOES. The potatoes must be well washed, but not pared, and
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