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understood ii'om the following sections of houses, and their description. In 

 fip*. 3 we have a lean-to structure, placed against a wall at an angle of 45" 

 the sashes being 14 feet. By raising the border in the 

 manner here indicated, not only is more space given 

 within, but the practice of planting the roots, as well 

 as the stem, in the border within the glass, is favour- 

 able to the vine, and to the production of good-flavoured 

 fruit, while the border itself may ba appropriated to 

 vines in pots. 



^'ji. Lean-to peach-houses may airio be 

 formed by 14-foot sashes placed at an angle 

 of 40° ; the peaches being trained against 

 the back wall (fig. 4), and others planted 

 either in the 



front border 

 standing in 

 pots, or par- 

 tially tramed -vs^y§<i 



W^// 



III. — SECTION OF LEAK-TO VIKEEY 



upon a 

 trellis, ac- 

 cording to 



the taste oi the cultivator. This style of building requires no rafters, frame- 

 ■work, or other erection, excepting the fixing of the wall-plate in a bed of 



rv. — EI-ETATION" OP LEAK-TO FEUIT-EOUSE. 



concrete, at the required angle, A lean-to pinery is formed by laying 

 14-foot sashes at a proper angle, and arranging the border to suit them. 



672. A span-roofed house composed of 10-foot lights, at an angle of 45** 

 gives an internal width of 14 feet, and forms an excellent vinery and 

 fruit-house ; the border, both insido and out, being raised as shown in the 



