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GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



in this country, is certainly new in its almost universal adop- 

 tion by commercial gardeners, in all houses erected dur- 

 ing the past five years in the neighborhood of New York ; 

 it has great advantages over the detached system, be- 

 ing less expensive in heating, more saving of space, and, 

 above all, far more economical in cost of construction. 

 I prefer having only three together, for the reason that, 

 when we have the snow to clear away, it is quickly done by 



being shoveled from the 

 two valleys or furrows 

 over the ridges ; although 

 we have one grower in 

 this neighborhood who 

 has 12 connected houses, 

 and finds but little trouble 

 with snow; our snows 

 being mostly from the 

 North, the shed breaks 

 them off in a great meas- 

 ure, and what blows over, 

 blows mostly off through 

 the valley between the 

 sashes. The water from 

 the gutter is led into a 

 cistern, at the south end 

 Fig. 24.— west's force pump. of the green-houses, of a 

 capacity of not less than 3000 cubic feet, if 5000, all the bet- 

 ter ; to this is connected a West's Force Pump, fig. 24, wit^i 

 150 feet of 1^-ineh hose, and to the end of the hose is attach- 

 ed a heavy sprinkler. One man pumps, and another regu- 

 lates the water and sprinkles it over the plants. My estab- 



