PLUM ORCHARD HOUSE. 47 
THE PLUM HOUSE, 
It is evident on all sides that Plums require quite 
as much protection while they are in bloom as Peaches, 
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END SECTION OF HOUSE, 
Fie, 15.—SECTION OF THE FORTY-FEET PLUM ORCHARD HOUSE. 
To be glazed with clips without putty. 
Scale 3, inch to 1 foot. 
References to plan.—aa, wall; B 8B, top ventilators, one foot wide, made to open and 
shut by rack gearing, the same as for fig. 12; cc, one eighteen-inch row of 
squares along the whole front, permanently glazed into the wood, and not to 
open ; DDD, one-foot-wide openings all along the front, with a flap shutter hinged 
below, and fastened at top with buttons; EE, eighteen-inch close board; J, the 
door; G, the ends, weather-boarded. 
but they do not altogether like a close and confined 
air; what is wanted is a fair shelter from the cutting 
winds in the spring when they are in flower. We do 
