not afford to build the length of honse in kee])ing ^\dth the wide houses, and for 

 tliis reason he should insist on getting just as wide a house as his means will allow. 

 For the man growing greenhouse products during all the winter it is not economical 

 to build a house less than forty feet in width. Much better that he build over 

 forty feet in width and not so long, than a long narrow house which prevents 

 the easy handling of all parts of work, etc. It is cheaper by far to add to a wide 

 house after a few years than to tear down a long narrow house and rebuild it. 

 Narrow houses have their place, quite true, and many are making good returns 

 from large plants of narrow houses; but, on the other hand, they are seeing the 

 point of the wide house, and m many cases rebuilding. For the grower on ten 

 acres of land who wishes to have a house to grow lettuce in during the winter and 

 use as a plant house towards spring, it is just possible that a house twenty-five feet 



In wide houses the crop can be handled with minimum expense. Horse-drawn imple- 

 ments were used to prepare the land here for this crop. Interior of previous view. 



in width will give as good results where the heating and ventilating are carefully 

 looked after. On the whole it will pay any man who is building a greenhouse at 

 all to put up a house of wide span, because he has more room, better control of 

 ventilation, less chance of disease, and the heating cost of the wide house is con- 

 siderably less than that of the same width made up of several narrow houses. 



IRON FEAME CONSTRUCTION. 



Possibly this form of construction is receiving more attention at the present 

 time than any other. Growers in many sections of the United States are finding 

 that the best is none too good, and the iron frame greenhouse meets with their 

 approval better than any other. Prominent vegetable growers in the vicinities of 

 Boston, Rochester, Erie, and Philadelphia, who are competent men on greenhouse 

 construction details, favor this form, and back it up by securing more houses as 

 their demand increases. They are the best judges as to the value of these houses. 



