CHAPTER VIII. 
THE PINK AND CARNATION FORCING HOUSE. 
FRoM a commercial point of view these flowers are 
not much understood as a lucrative class for forcing. 
Fig. 24.—SECTION OF A SIXTY-FEET SPAN-ROOF CARNATION HOUSE, 
EIGHTEEN FEET WIDE. 
Reference to plan.—aaaa, top ventilators; BBB, sliding sashes; ecccc, zinc 
shutters, made to lift up and down in runs for the admission of air, when the 
sashes, ‘B,’ cannot be opened; DD, staging all round the house, two feet three 
inches wide, to hold three rows of carnations; E, the centre stand, showing how 
the fixed troughs are made for the plants, nine inches wide and seven inches deep; 
F, hot-water pipes; G, pathway. 
END SECTION OF HOUSE. 
Nor do many seem to succeed well with them. I at- 
tribute failure chiefly to one cause: like most other 
