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THE FORCING GARDEN. 



materials, and painting the woodwork with three coats 

 of anti-corrosive stone-coloured paint, a door at one end, 

 and the other end close-boarded with one-inch boards, 

 ploughed and tongued, or raps nailed on to the 

 joints. 



Top-gearing 

 for ventilators. 



FIG. 13. PEACH ORCHARD HOUSE. 

 Scale T V inch to 1 foot. 



References. a, flap ventilator ; E, ditto shutter one foot wide all along front ; c r 

 close boarding ; D D, the back wall. 



Forty feet long, eight feet wide, twelve feet high at back, two feet high in front ; to 

 be glazed without putty. Rafters to be eighteen inches apart, and two inches by 

 three inches scantling ; glazed with my clips with twenty-one ounce glass, eighteen 

 inches by twenty. The front posts three feet six inches long, three by four and a 

 half scantling. The plates at the eaves, three by four and a half feet ; the wall 

 plate, two and a half by three ; the board for ventilators, &c., three-quarters of an 

 inch thick. The ventilators to be in ten-feet lengths, hinged with tees ; one set of 

 gearing to each ten-feet length. 



END SECTION. 



Such a house can be profitably utilised, and I will 

 now proceed to show how it may be done. The back 

 wall can be planted with oblique cordon Peaches two 



