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NEW TLANS FOR G KEEX-IIOUSES. 



BY r.OBEET MESTON, ASnWOOD, TENN. 



Ix I'iviuo- my plans for an improvement in green-houses, I will first remark tliat the 

 object is to improve the interior of such buildings, by doing away, in some instances, 

 with the long and heavy-looking stages, and introducing something more light and 

 elegant in appearance. You will see by the diagrams that the object is to group all 

 the plants on circular and revolving stages, being so constructed that all the pots are 

 hid from view. The object in this revolving stage is to give to all the plants an equal 

 portion of sun and light. In fact, the plants on these stages will "know no East, no 

 "West, no North, no South ;" being under the control of the operator, they can in an 

 instant be changed at pleasure. 



Fio-. 1 is a span-roof house, that in some cases might be beneficial to commercial 

 gardeners, as it may be placed east and west as well as north and south. This house 



is sixteen by forty feet in the clear, side walls 

 three feet, height ten feet. B, B, front stages, 

 two feet wide. J, J, walk, three feet wide, all 

 ,-□-) \^ round the house. D, showing the position 



of a circular stage, six feet in diameter at the 

 base. This house will hold seven of these 

 stages, by setting them so as not to touch. 

 There will be little or no room lost in this 

 Y\cr. 1. system of staging plants, and it will have 



the advantage of bringing any portion of the plants to the sun Avhen required. 

 W^hen the houses are filled with mixed plants, I think the grouping system would be 

 of advantage, as they do not all require the same treatment the season round. And 

 if ever such stages should be required they can be made very jilain : the revolving 

 part of the stage can be placed upon a wooden frame, running round in a cast-iron 

 groove ; the shelves can be cast whole, with plain open-work, say three bores to a shelf, 

 leaving the pots in view, as in the present case. 



I will now turn to what I call a model green-house (fig. 2). It is a house twenty- 

 seven by forty feet, supposed to be a span-roof house — but I shall say nothing about 

 the building, my remarks being confined to the fitting up of the interior, a, o, o, «, to 

 receive the cast-iron cylinder, 2 ; this is of ornamental cast-iron, the pattern to be 

 flowers and foliage — height, two feet six inches. 3, a moulding ; over that, eight 

 inches of ornamental work, of another style, to hide the first row of pots on the stage. 

 About sixteen inches from the top of the cylinder, on the inside, is a strong flange, 

 two or three inches wide, intended to carry the stage. 4, cross section, that supports 

 the bearers. 5, rollers. G, a straight piece of square iron, to receive the top, V ; the 

 bearers passing in at 8, and secured with bolts at 9. The shelving to be cast a little 

 hollowing, rising in the front about eight inches, to correspond with the ornamental 

 work on the top of the cylinder, which rises in the back two inches. An inch or two 



