118 THE FORCING GARDEN, 
Eighty-two rafters, twelve feet long, four and a half inches by: 
one and a half. 
Sixty feet ridge board, four and a half inches by one and a 
half. 
Two hundred and forty feet eaves and sill plate, two inches 
by four and a half. 
Four hundred and twenty-four feet sash bars, for ends and 
fronts. 
One good door, lock, and key. 
Two thousand feet twenty-one-ounce glass, eighteen inches by 
twelve, and carriage for two hundred miles. 
Eight hundred and eighty glazing clips, and glazing. 
One thousand seven hundred and nineteen stock bricks, at 
1/7. 10s. per thousand, and carriage for five miles. 
Masons’ work, mortar, &c. 
Painting and paint. 
Fourteen zinc shutters and frames. 
Six set of gearing for top ventilators, in all £42 18s. 
Add 251. for a boiler and connections, and 101. for staging. 
Total, for house sixty feet long by eighteen feet wide, five feet 
high in front, twelve feet high to ridge, £77 18s. 
All the materials and work to be good: this is less than 
half the usual cost for such a house. 
Now if such a place were built and ready by August, 
and the stock of Pinks and Carnations purchased by the 
end of September, and put to work, the profits arising 
from the sale of the flowers would pay for the building 
of the house, and then leave a handsome surplus for 
the trouble. The cost of the stock depends upon the 
kind and strength of the plants; but good sorts and 
good plants can be had in Pinks at 18s. per dozen, 
and in Carnations at 2/. per dozen ; less by the hundred, 
and in the trade; but it is useless to think about ob- 
taining a number of plants, fit for forcing, and capable 
of giving the requisite quantity of flowers, unless these 
steps are taken. 
The house illustrated above wiil hold 2,000 plants, 
