THE FORCING HOUSE. 139 
the above house is well adapted where a moderate 
quantity of cut flowers is required. This house is 
thirty-two feet long, eleven feet wide, twelve feet high 
at the back, and five feet high in front; the construc- 
tion, cost, and utility of it are worthy of notice for either 
an amateur or a professional. 
The total cost of this structure by a nice calculation 
is not more than 61/. 4s. everything complete, and 
double-glazed also with fast top clips on the vertical 
bar, with a good and powerful heating apparatus, pit, 
and front staging, and everything as is shown. It will 
take 1,586 bricks for the outer walls except the back 
wall, 1,719 bricks for the pit, 1,100 feet of 21-oz. glass, 
1,080 clips for glazing, and a 30l. heating apparatus, 
&e. &c., the materials to be of the very best kind, and 
the work equal to any in a plain way. Ornamental 
work contributes to appearance only, and is all very 
well for setting off a mansion or dwelling house, and 
perhaps may be necessary in some cases, but plants will 
not grow any the better for ornamental work, and it is 
three times the expense, and, I may safely say, 
depreciates much sooner than solid plain work. 
The cost of such a house complete, if constructed 
by most of the common builders, will not be one shilling 
less than 110/. or 1207. I have no doubt that if any 
one simply sends the dimensions of this house to any 
professional builder of such things, and asks for an es- 
timate, that 120/. will be the lowest figure. Not long 
since I drew a plan, for a gentleman, of a house, and 
gave the estimate for the construction and glazing of 
it, which was considerably less than 50 per cent. of 
the price that one or two professional builders did really 
give in for the contract; but he got it done at my 
