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and the ground excavated, which will be more favour- 
able for winter Cucumber growing than if it were four 
feet above the surface level; it would then be two feet six 
inches above the surface, instead of four feet from the 
eaves to the ground. This house is a roomy one and 
is especially adapted both for winter and summer use. 
Fig. 19.—SECTION OF A SIXTY-FEET ROSE-FORCING AND CUCUMBER HOUSE. 
Fourteen feet wide, four feet high from ground to eaves, ten feet high to the ridge. 
To be double-glazed on my plan, without putty. 
References to house.—a, top ventilators, made to open by rack gearing; B, a set of 
sliding shutters, two feet by one, along the south side. These work by my cords 
and pulleys (see figs. 2 and 3). 
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END SECTION OF HOUSE. 
References.—c c, pit, four feet wide, four feet deep; D D, hot-water pipes ; ¢, gearing 
to open lights, aa; /, ground line. 
Co3t of this house about 541, 10s. 
The winter plants may be grown on the south side, and 
the summer plants on the north side, there being a pit 
all round the house which has a south and north roof, 
which is a great advantage. Moreover it is necessary 
that a Cucumber house should be adapted all the year 
round for at least two stages of growth, or rather two 
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