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ber, included in three runs or series. The upper series is twenty 

 by sixty feet in dimensions, and this is divided into two houses, 



A and B, nearly equal 

 in extent. These are 

 low houses, three- 

 fourths span upon a 

 sharp slope, and they 

 are used for the cooler 

 plants, such as lettuce, 

 radishes, spinage, peas, 

 tulips, verbenas, etc. In 

 this house electric light 

 experiments were car- 

 ried on during last win- 

 ter, and they are now 

 under progress a second 

 § time. The central or 

 I second series is twenty 

 ^ by sixty feet in total 

 §? outline, and is divided 



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into two equal parts, C 



^ and 



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D. Each part is 

 . built upon a somewhat 

 . different plan. Both are 

 £ two-thirds span, being 

 built upon a sharp slope. 

 C has a gable standing 

 eleven feet above the 

 walk, while the gable 

 of D stands nine feet 

 high. House C is de- 

 signed primarily as a 

 tomato house, and the 

 tomato crop which is in 

 it at the present time is 

 in every respect an ad- 

 mirable one. (Fig. 6.) 

 House D is designed 

 primarily as a cucum- 

 ber and melon house, in which capacity it has been used last 



