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bought second-hand, and observe to put in small soot-doors opposite 

 the principal flues for convenience of cleaning from soot, and these, 

 though their cost would be trifling when new, might be had second- 

 hand. 



For the building must bis provided 4000 red bricks, 250 white 

 bricks for floors, 10 feet of coping-bricks, one chaldron, or 36 bushels, 

 of lime, and three loads of sand, and 20 feet of 9-inch drain-pipe for 

 flue and chimney. 



SCALE 



Fifty-four feet of wall- plate, 4 h inches by 3 inches, for the various 

 roofs to rest upon ; and if the ends of the pit, Fig. 1, be only bricked 

 up as high as the front-wall, and the rest part glass, about 14 feet 

 more will be required ; also, for the jambs and liutels for two doors, 

 34 feet of the same scantling, making about 102 feet. 



For the roof of Fig. 1, 180 feet will be required ; and about 40 

 feet of 3 by 4|-inch scantling to lay into the walls as bond-timber. 

 For the pitch of the roof and ventilators about 32 feet of 1 by 9-inch 

 board for shelves b, u, and ventilators, c, five iron brackets, ditto a 

 few feet of spline for ventilators, and f-inch iron rod for the same ; 

 a ladder o for stoke-hole, one door and threshold for potting shed, 

 Fig. 3 ; also one door, partly glass, and threshold for Fig. 1, two 

 stakes and two pieces of rough board for potting-bench m ; 70 feet 

 of scantling, 2| by 3 inches for spars to roof of Fig. 3 ; a few feet of 

 pantile lath for ditto, and 100 pantiles ; three well-glazed 2-inch 

 lights for Fig. 2, which can be bought ready-made and seasoned of 

 any of the hothouse builders, these being the only parts, except the 

 door for Fig. 1, that requires a first-rate joiner to execute ; 100 feet 

 box of glass of the exact size required can also be had of the London 

 houses, and which would leave plenty in hand for repairs. Auti- 



