PEA-GLASSES. 165 
should be two feet every way, 7.e. two feet at the base 
across them, and two feet up each roof. They should 
be made in four-feet lengths for the convenience of re- 
moval and for turning them up off the Peas at times, to 
admit of dressing the crop, and for admitting a day’s 
nice rain occasionally. Blocks must be placed under 
the south side of the glasses, to allow air to get to the 
Peas. The glasses may be continued over them till 
the beginning of May, when they may be entirely re- 
moved, and used for ridge Cucumbers, Tomatoes, «ce. 
The cost of these Pea-glasses will be 6s. for every 
four-feet run complete, not more. Thus, sixteen feet 
of glass twelve feet by twenty-four feet, at 2d. per foot, 
carriage and all, 2s. 8d.; the wcod and the making, 
3s.; glazing, 4d.; and if painted well they will last for 
many years. If anyone can make them for himself 
the cost will be considerably less. Every foot run of 
such glass will cost from 2s. 6d. to 3s. if made by pro- 
fessional men. The exorbitant prices quoted by high 
professional horticultural builders are a great drawback 
to horticulture ; they keep back the trade, and admit 
of the foreigner successfully competing with the home 
grower. Let the professional market gardener be his 
own builder, go to the best market for all his stuff, 
and erect his own glass, and then he will not only save 
fifty per cent. in the cost, but he will be able to fairly 
compete with the foreigner. It is even easy for a man 
to fix his own hot-water apparatus, and it is now a very 
simple matter for any man to fix his pipes with those 
india-rubber rings I have before referred to. A mason 
may be required to set the boiler, but all the rest any- 
one can do. 
