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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



HOMEMADE COUNTRY GREENHOUSE. 



AM a farmer's son, but have never been strong enough to do ordinary 

 farm work. Several years ago I began raising a few plants for sale. 

 When the fact became noised abroad, people came from far and near 

 to buy. I had no conveniences excepting sitting-room windows and 

 a few small frames covered with old window sashes. But father came 

 to my rescue, and built a small greenhouse. We have two now, and 

 expect to build another early in the spring, as the indications are that we would 

 not be able to supply the demand for plants this season with our two^houses, 

 one 32-ft. long, the other 40-ft , and three large frames covered with 13 hotbed 

 sashes. Our buildings are homemade, much as any farmer could build who is 

 at all handy with tools. The material is almost wholly scantling 2x4 inch and 

 boards. The buildings are double boarded with paper between. We buy the 

 windows and roof sashes, the latter being 3x6 ft. 



The house illustrated is my sleeping room at night and my sitting room and 

 work room by day. The posts or studding along the front side are 2x4 inches, 

 6 ft. high, and set just far enough apart to allow the windows to come between, 



so no window casings are used. The 

 house is 32 ft. long and 10 ft. wide. 

 It is heated with a 2^ ft. box stove 

 that takes in very coarse wood. The 

 stovepipe runs along the back or north 

 side of the building behindthe staging 

 that is under the roof windows. This 

 is not the best method of heating, but 

 will do for those who have not the 

 means to get something better, and I 

 think this building suits my purpose 

 better than if it were built and heated in the usual way, as the benches would 

 then be at an even height and the temperature would not vary so mch in 

 different parts of the building to suit a variety of plants 



On the lower shelves I have pansies, English daisies, and a few roses in 

 pails, the pails resting on the floor close against the bottoms of the windows. 

 Higher up, on shelves which go along the middle of the windows, I have a 

 variety of geraniums and other plants that do not need to be kept very warm, 

 while still higher upon the staging under the roof glass, which is built like a 

 stairway, I have coleus, heliotrope, pinks, more geraniums, etc. There is 

 an east and a north window not shown in the cut. For ventilation, 

 any of the windows may be raised, but as this causes the cold outside air to 

 strike directly on the plants if the south and west windows are open, I generally 

 ventilate sufficiently by the door which is in the west end and the east and 



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