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made with twelve-feet sashes, at an angle of 30°. The width of the 

 house is about nineteen feet ; this allows of a three-feet walk along the 

 centre, and gives two borders eight feet wide. Allow eighteen inches 

 next the glass for the hot-water pipes, and four rows of pines may be 

 grown each side. There are no ratters, but vines with their roots outside 

 can be taken up on wires, and the rods can be wintered outside by- 

 means of slides fitted at the bottom of the ventilators, which, when 

 removed, allow the vines to be drawn through, and an internal box is 

 constructed to prevent the entrance of cold air into the house. The 



materials used in the construction of this house only require re-arrange- 

 ..ment to form a house of quite another kind ; there need not be an 

 inch of wood cut, or any part of the iron-work altered. Take the ends 

 of this pine-house, which are shaped as in Tig. 3 a, turn them, as in Fig. 

 3 b, and we have another acute- 

 angled structure for early grapes 

 (Fig. 2). Of course, where walls 

 are standing, nothing can be more 

 simple than to order the houses 

 according to measurement. There 

 are no rafters, no framework, and 

 there is no occasion for preparing 



a design and calling a council of « Fig. 3. & 



carpenters and bricklayers. The raised border gives immense power of 

 resistance against frost, and the furnace and boiler can be on the level 

 outside, so that there is no risk of having it water-logged in places not 

 well drained. 



It has always been our custom to quote the names of manufacturers, 

 and the prices of goods. It is against our own interest to do so, because 

 manufacturers whose productions are recommended in this work, occasion- 

 ally consider themselves absolved of the necessity of advertising. They 

 are certainly in the wrong, but we must leave them to find out for them- 

 selves the magnitude of the mistake. AYe consider the interests of our 

 readers, and we recommend nothing about which we have the shadow of a 

 doubt. In some quarters this method seems not yet to be understood, but 

 it will be understood in time, and we are content to wait, and are prepared 



