The Canadian Horticulturist. 



AN AMATEUR'S GREENHOUSE. 



FTER reading Mr. Karn's excellent paper on the Amateur Green- 

 house, our readers will read with interest the following description 

 of a very inexpensive one, taken from Gardening, one of our 

 valuable exchanges, published at Chicago : My greenhouse (if 

 such it may be called), cost me but sixty-five dollars complete, 

 including the Domestic Water Heater, piping, etc. As the illus- 

 tration will show it is a lean-to, built at the side of my house with 

 an eastern exposure, it is 12 feet 6 inches long by 6 feet four 

 inches wide. It is built on posts set in the ground, four feet 

 apart, along the outer edge ; the posts are covered on the outside 

 with rough boards, over which is paper, and again weather boards, or matched 

 siding, which thoroughly excludes the cold and makes a nice finish ; upon this 

 rests the framework and glass sides. The top or roof is made of sash, which 

 can be raised or removed entirely at pleasure. Along the top, next to the house, 

 is a row of ventilators on hinges which are raised or lowered from the inside. 

 The entrance is from the cellarway, as the ground was excavated to the cellar 

 floor level, to permit of head room and allow the roof to come under the dining 

 room window. The bench on which the plants, or rather the pots rest, is four 

 by twelve feet, and it also extends across one end. 



Fig. 893. — An Amateur's Greenhouse, 



