CHAPTER XII. 
THE GENERAL PLANT FORCING HOUSE. 
As a rule most people, both amateurs and professionals, 
find it necessary to force various sorts of flowers, shrubs, 
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Fig. 26.—SECTION OF A MISCELLANEOUS FORCING HOUSE. 
Forty feet long, eleven feet wide, thirteen feet high at back, five feet high in front. 
END SECTION OF HOUSE, SHOWING PIT AND PIPES, 
References to house.—aaaa, top ventilators, to open by cords and pulleys; BB, 
sliding sashes in front; ccce, zinc shutters, to slide up and down ‘to admit air 
when the front sashes cannot be opened; D, doorway; E, double set of hot-water 
Pipes ; J, the tan bed, for plunging pots of flowering shrubs, &c.; G, the pathway 
round. 
and roots in the same house. For a good compact 
place for an amateur or a man having a small business 
