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It dves not warp or twist. It holds paint, is easy to nail 
and work to shape, and stands the decaying influences 
of heat and moisture, so destructible to greenhouses, 
longer than any known wood. It is true this wood grows 
all through the Southern States, and many of our readers 
have seen groups of it called ‘‘ Brakes”’ in the swamps of 
the South, but it remained for a firm of lumber dealers 
in Ohio to take this valuable wood in hand and make a 
specialty of it for greenhouse construction. ‘These gen- 
tlemen prepare the wood for sash bars, guttering and 
ridges, and no point in greenhouse construction and its 
durability is overlooked by them. To all contemplating 
the erection of a greenhouse, we recommend to them the 
LOCKLAND LUMBER COMPANY, Lockland, Ohio, who 
will cheerfully give all the information desired upon the 
subject. By stating the size you intend your house to 
be, they will quote you prices delivered in your town. 
The wood will be all gotten out to suit the size of your 
house, and when you get it any ordinary carpenter can 
putitup. This plan will be found much cheaper and 
far more desirable than if you were to employ a regular 
carpenter to put it up who probably never built a green- 
house in his life, and must of necessity learn his experi- 
ence at your expense. It is better to get a firm to furnish 
your lumber that makes a specialty of this particular 
branch, than to trust it to the inexperienced in this line. 
A man may be able to construct a beautiful and commo- 
dious dwelling house, and yet make a very poor green- 
house. We have been using cypress in our greenhouses 
here for some years from the Lockland Company, and 
are much pleased with it, and desire here to give the 
benefit of our experience to our readers. 
HEATING AND VENTILATING. 
This is also a subject that much could be written upon, 
but that is not our purpose here. ‘To be as brief as possi- 
ble the best instructions we can give is, as soon as the 
dimensions of your greenhouses are determined upon 
write to HITCHINGS & Co., 233 Mercer street, New York. 
Give dimensions of house, the temperature you desire to 
keep it at, and also the average temperature of your 
