The Canadian Horticulturist. 437 



plants for sale. The walks are two feet wide. The door is in the west end, 

 and a storm door is built outside. I did all my work myself and the greenhouse 

 cost me fifty dollars. With a few cold frames in addition it will, if well man- 

 aged, turn out $200 to $300 worth of plants and cut flowers per year. Still, if 

 the purse will admit, build it on the level ground and do not dig. Use two 

 thicknesses of board and put tarred paper between them, as the building will 

 then last much longer, will not be so damp in continued wet weather, and will 

 allow cold frames to be placed outside the east wall. A good drain is indispen- 

 sable for a house built below the level of the ground.— Ex. 



Bank FOPCingf House. — The accompanying illustration shows a plan 

 for securing a maximum of warmth at the least possible expenditure of internal 



4 1 ^ heat. Such a house is, more- 



-*,j^ i^S'^vJ^l'^^fV^'* over, cheaply built wherever loose 



^ v^MX^^^rrv"^ X "^ stones are abundant, whether the 



- \^ i^ji^^'^'^-'^^^'^^^^^^'C^r/ -y stones be irregularly faced, or 



*V"''^'"' '^'-'^ ^ "' '^!:i^211_L_ 4 simply rounded cobble-stones. 



' ""^^^''^^''^^-^^^^^^ 'f A cut is made into the bank and 



% the wall laid up in cement, or 

 > cement and lime. The rear and 

 _ '' end walls should have a tile drain 

 Fio. 864— Bank Forcing Housr. laid just outside of their base, 



coming out upon the surface at 

 the front. The rear wall should rise a little above the ground, which should be 

 graded a trifle higher in the middle at the rear than at the ends, to turn aside 

 the surface water. The tile drain will take care of all water that soaks down 

 through the ground. The wall in front is extended a little beyond either end 

 of the building to retain a full bank of earth against the end walls. The interior 

 arrangement will, of course, be similar to any single roofed forcing house. 



Apple Culture requires more care than any other crop. A few years ago 

 I plowed my apple orchard three years in succession, gave it a heavy dressing 

 of stable manure, and raised corn the first year, potatoes the second, and seeded 

 down with barley the third season, and got the heaviest crops of apples ever 

 grown on this farm. Some say that this method over- stimulates the trees. 

 What if it does ? A double crop of large smooth fruit for ten years ought to 

 satisfy us as well as an average crop for 20 years. I believe if every farmer will 

 follow this experience and spray his trees thoroughly he would agree with me 

 that, take it one year and another, the apple is one of the most profitable crops 

 on many farms. Painting the trunk with lime, soap and water will destroy 

 many insects that do irreparable injury to the fruit trees. — American Agricul- 

 turist. 







