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for the house seventeen by sixty (figure 58). The cost 

 of this structure would be about one dollar and fifty 

 cents per foot, or $1,800 

 for a house twenty by sixty 

 complete. 



Figure 60 represents a 

 curvilinear, three-quarter ^^ 

 span house, eighteen by A 

 sixty, with twelve feet ridge, ^ 

 which can be used as a green- 

 house, rose house, or grap- 

 ery. The cost, if built of 

 wood (as advised in the 

 house seventeen by sixty, 

 figure 58), would be about 

 one dollar and fifty cents 

 per foot, or $1,620. " 



Figure 61 (center, fifty by 

 fifty, each wing twenty-five 

 by forty-five) shows a beau- 

 tiful and one of the most 

 useful of glass structures. 

 The center is to be used for a 

 conservatory or show house, 

 where ornamental foliaged 

 or flowering plants may be 

 placed. The wings are to 

 be used for a grapery, green- 

 house, or rose liouse, as de- 

 sired. Such a building as 

 is shown in the engraving 

 would cost, with iron frame, 

 brick foundations, and heat- 

 ing and ventilating appara- 

 tus complete, about two dollar.- aiid fifty cents per foot, 

 or Sll,875, if of the above dimensions. This is the 



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