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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



INEXPENSIVE GREENHOUSE. 



ajlHE accompanying illustration shows the plan for a green- 

 house which is cheap and gives a different temperature in 

 various parts of the house, yet is heated with only one fire. 

 The front part is ten feet wide and twenty-two feet long and 

 the rear part eight feet wide and twenty-two feet long. To 

 build the house, dig in the ground two and a half feet, then 

 set in oak posts eight feet long, sinking them three feet in 

 the ground. This leaves the walls five feet high, except the south wall, which 

 is only four feet high. This wall being low lets in plenty of sunshine. The 

 framework is oak scantling two by three inches, and the walls are made of 

 oak boards one inch thick. Then earth is banked up to the top of the wall and 

 sodded. The rafters on the south side are seven feet long ; all the other rafters 

 are four and a half feet long. The letter 

 a indicates the position of the stove, which 

 is an old fashioned wood-heating stove 

 The legs are left off and it is set on bricks 

 so as to place it low down, and over it is 

 built the cutting bench, the bottom of the 

 bench being two feet from the top of the 

 stove. A large pot of water is kept on the 

 oven to maintain due moisture in the air. 

 A large piece of sheet iron is placed be- 

 tween the stove and the wall ; another 

 piece is arranged so as to be easily moved in and out between the top of the stove 

 and the bottom of the cutting bench. The dotted lines show where the flue passes 

 from the stove. The flue is made of six-inch tile, except one joint of stovepipe 

 next the stove. This tile is supported by strong galvanized wire fastened to the 

 wall at one end, and to the rail on the flower bench on the other end. The 

 joints of tile are luted together with wet clay, which makes it easy to take them 

 down for cleaning out the soot, which must be done about once a month in 

 winter. The bench indicated by b and c is built high enough to allow two and 

 one-half feet space under it, which gives room to get under to put wood in the 

 stove ; ^ is a bed of heliotrope which is always in bloom, and c is where the car- 

 nations are grown for winter blooming. The fire is allowed to burn its full force 

 only in zero weather, when it must be looked after every four hours. In moder- 

 ately cold weather it may be left all night. There is always a difference of ten 

 to twelve degrees between the middle and the ends of the greenhouse. At d is 

 the rose bench, where roses are grown for cut flowers, a Marechal Neil being in 

 the end nearest the fire. The bench is two feet high. At e is the place for 

 begonias and young palms ; f, smilax, the bench low down ; g, coleus, begonias, 

 etc.; h, a large palm ; /, a tall plant. All the benches k, I and m, are used for 



Fig. 863 — Ground Plan of Greenhouse. 



