112 Small Green/iouses. 



Building G-reenhonses. 



WILL you please to advise me in regard to these enquiries: 

 First. — My employer is building a new place, and quite a discussion has arisen 

 in regard to the greenhouse. In making some improvements, we excavated what 

 was intended for a greenhouse cellar ; others advise us now to close up the excavation, 

 and have no cellar. My opinion has been asked and given as follows : Not to close 

 up the cellar, but build it up frost-proof with proper ventilation, covering over with 

 hard pine plank, tongued and grooved, and made water tight, the cellar to be kept 

 for the storage of some plants and shrubs which will not stand the winter outside, 

 and yet is not desirable to have them in the greenhouse. 



Second. — In making borders for a hot grapery, which is the best, to make them all 

 outside, or all inside, or both ? 



Third. — In making the borders for a cold grapery, which is best, all inside, or 

 outside, or both ? 



The situation of the above place is a good deal exposed, standing about two 

 hundred feet above tide water, and is at present very much exposed to the north and 

 north-east winds. The building is intended to be about one hundred feet long, running 

 north and south. The present calculation is to have a span roof, and to be divided 

 into three apartments : First, on the north end, is to be a greenhouse ; second, in 

 the middle, is to be a forcing house for grapes, and third, on the south end, will, or is 

 intended to be a cold grapery. 



Any information from you or any other of the numerous patrons of The Horticul- 

 turist, will be thankfully received. John Irvin. 



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Small G-reenhouses. 



A. ijueittion for " The Horticulturist." 



WE have a small well ventilated greenhouse, double pitch roof, 50x11 feet, fully 

 occupied only in February and March for starting vegetable plants for our 

 market garden ; balance of the year as yet unprovided for ; house generally filled 

 with lettuce ; location four miles from Harrisburgh, Pa. ; too far for the cut flower 

 trade, and besides market gardeners as a general rule don't very well understand 

 the management of an assortment of flowers. There are thousands of market 

 gardeners through the colder States that use greenhouses as above, and look to The 

 Horticulturist for advice and assistance, and while these might not succeed with a 

 general assortment of flowers, could do well with some specialty. The propagation 

 and culture of some new rose, for instance, for the trade by mail. Cannot some of 

 the many old greenhousemen among your subscribers give us a hint. Many of your 

 readers are owners of small greenhouses ; they would like to use them to advantage, 

 and I am sui-e would be greatly interested in the replies. After a little ventilation, 

 if some greenhousemen would advertise in your columns desirable stock which they 

 could sell us for the purpose named, or give us on a percentage, they would find 

 plenty of takers, more I am sure than they have any idea of. 



The question is, what will it pay us market gardeners best to raise in our small 

 greenhouses, from the middle of April to the first of February following, location 

 within four or five miles of any large country towns. Market Gardener. 



