BUILDINGS FOR HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES. 



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are clever at sucli work, and who will execute 

 the woodwork of any of these buildings at one 

 shilling per foot. Suppose, therefore, we cal- 

 culate that a lean-to green-house, Fig. 19, has 



Fig. 19. 



three feet of woodwork upright in front, and 

 two six-feet lights from back to front, and 

 three feet six inches wide, and that there be 

 ten of these lights side by side to make the 

 length of the house, which would then be 

 thirty-seven feet. Suppose the tops are sloped 

 so as to give us ten feet for the depth of the 

 house, there would then be, three times 37 

 feet, (111) for the upright front, and twelve 

 times 37 feet (444) for the roof, and say sixty 

 feet for each end (120.) The doors will add 

 about 20 feet. We now get at the total num- 

 ber of feet, which is 695, Mhich number of 

 shillings, thirty-four pounds fifteen shillings 

 gives us the carpenter's work. We will 

 reckon the glazing of the roof, or 444 feet, at 

 4^d. — eight pounds three shillings and two- 

 pence, and the rest of the glass, 231 at 8^. — 

 seven pounds fourteen shillings. There would 

 be wanting the price of the bricklayer's work 

 only to complete this building, this depending 

 a little upon the price of the material in the 



locality, for sometimes the distance the bricks 

 have to be drawn makes a good deal of differ- 

 ence ; but the height of the brickwork, say 

 eighteen inches in the ground, and two feet 

 six out of the ground, together four feet, 

 with the ends fifty-seven feet in length. This 

 should be nine-inch work : say it will cost ten 

 pounds, making sixty pounds, and under 

 sixty-one. The heating of a house like this 



would require a conical boiler, say three 

 pounds ; and eighty feet of pipe, at eighteen 

 pence, six pounds ; and fixing, say two pounds 

 more. Here, then, is a first rate range of 

 green-houses, thirty-seven feet long and 

 ten feet Avide, for about seventy pounds, 

 as handsome as it can be built, and all 

 complete.* A conservatory. Fig. 20, the 

 same length and double the width, and 

 with glass to the bottom, maybe reckoned 

 at double the sum, and no one could doubt 

 of the effective appearance of this style of 

 building for both. The annexed sketches 

 of a green-house and conservatory will 

 give an idea of the buildings alluded to in the 

 foregoing notice. The prices mentioned are 

 quite the outside, and include all the fasten- 

 ings, hinges, and necessary means of heating. 

 The filling up of the inside is so completely a 

 matter of taste, that it is impossible to say 

 what would be the cost, until the intended 

 plan is known. The best way to fit up a 

 green-house is with a table or rack in front, 

 two feet wide, and shelves the form of the 

 roof at the other side of the path. Fig. 21. 



The conservatories may be fitted rather 

 differently, for the object there is to make it 

 a sort of winter garden. There should be a 

 broad walk all round, laid with the finest 

 binding gravel. The centre should be pre- 

 pared for planting, and the borders should be 

 glass, which is the most neat and elegant, as 

 well as lasting of all borders. As the glass 

 of the windows reach to within a trifle of the 

 ground, there may be a rack or shelf one foot 

 wide even with the bottom of the glass. Un- 



der this rack should be placed the hot water 

 pipes for heating, a gutter being formed just 

 below the si;rface to make room for them. 

 This shelf or rack is to hold pots of blooming 

 plants, with which it should be kept supplied. 



* The cost would be about the same price liere. if substan- 

 tially built ; that is, at about SflO per foot, or $370 for the 

 whole. Ed. 



