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materials, and painting the woodwork with three coats 
of anti-corrosive stone-coloured paint, a door at one end, 
and the other end close-boarded with one-inch boards, 
ploughed and tongued, or raps nailed on to the 
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Fic. 13.—PEACH ORCHARD HOUSE, 
Top-gearing Scale 4, inch to 1 foot, 
for ventilators. 
References.—a, flap ventilator; B, ditto shutter one foot wide all along front; ¢, 
close boarding ; DD, the back wall 
Forty feet long, eight feet wide, twelve feet high at back, two feet high in front; to 
be glazed without putty. Rafters to be eighteen inches apart, and two inches by 
three inches scantling ; glazed with my clips with twenty-one ounce glass, eighteen 
inches by twenty. The front posts three feet six inches long, three by four and a 
half scantling. The plates at the eaves, three by four and a half feet; the wall 
plate, two and a half by three ; the board for ventilators, &c. , three-quarters of an 
inch thick. The ventilators to be in ten-feet lengths, hinged with tees ; one set of 
gearing to each ten-feet length, 
END SECTION. 
Such a house can be profitably utilised, and I will 
now proceed to show how it may be done. The back 
wall can be planted with oblique cordon Peaches two 
