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ORKAMEXTAL GARDENIKG. 



of Flushing, N. Y. They bear so forcibly upon tbis 

 subject, tbat I present them here : 



*^ It is within the means of erery man who builds a 

 house to rent for eight hundred dollars per year, to have 

 a garden on the roof, which, during the summer, can be 

 filled with the most luscious fruits, and in the winter 

 with plants, the beauty of which will afford a charm far 

 beyond the trifling cost of maintenance. 



'^ A oflass roof costs but little more than a slate or tin 

 one. Let the roof, therefore, be covered with glass, and 

 let the garret floor be covered with concrete, sloping 



Fig. 110. — A ROOF CONSERVATOET. 



gently from the center to the sides, around which a 

 slight depression in the floor can carry the moisture or 

 drip into the leaders, which pass from the roof of every 

 house to the ground, and with slight expense a perfect 

 green-house may be had. Now for heating. Every one 

 knows that the upper rooms of his house are so warm 

 from the ascending heat of his furnace, that registers are 

 scarcely needed. Let the doors be kept open, and the 

 waste heat of the house will keep the green-house at the 

 highest desirable temperature without any extra trouble 

 or expenditure. 



'' Its care would be a pleasant recreation for any of the 



