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GARDEI^'IN'G FOR PLEASURE. 



fifty cents per square foot. This is exclusive of heating, 

 which, if done by hot-water pipes, will cost for ten feet 

 wide, about forty cents per square foot of the glass sur- 

 face ; if twenty feet wide, about the same. Thus, to 

 complete a conservatory, with heating apparatus, shelves, 

 etc., ten feet wide by forty feet long, would cost about 



Fie:. 50.— BASE-BUKNER. 



Fig. 51.— SECTION. 



^400 ; if twenty by forty feet, about $700. In this esti- 

 mate it is assumed that the heating is to be done by 

 the Base-barning Water-heater of Hitchings & Co., 

 or other similar heater. This heating apparatus is of 

 comparatively recent invention, and is exceedingly w^ell 

 adapted for the purpose, as the fire requires no more at- 



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