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THE FORCING GARDEN. 



Some classes of the Kose are much easier to force 

 than others. The Chinas are among these, for they 

 are easy to excite. The Hybrid China, Moss, Grallica, 

 with some exceptions, are more difficult to force well 

 than the former or the Perpetuals and Hybrid Per- 



FIG. 22. SECTION OP A SIXTY-FEET ROSE-FORCING AND CUCUMBER HOUSE. 



Fourteen feet wide, four feet high from ground to eaves, ten feet high to the ridge. 

 To be double-glazed on my plan, without putty. 



References to house.' a, top ventilators, made to open by rack gearing ; B, a set of 

 sliding shutters, two feet by one, along the south side. These work by my cords 

 and pulleys (see figs, 2 and 3). 



END SECTION OF HOUSE. 



References. c c, pit, four feet wide, four feet deep ; D D, hot- water pipes ; e, gearing 

 to open lights, a ; /, ground line. 



Cost of this house about 54?. 10s. 



petuals. The object in view must be the chief and 

 fixed rule in this treatment of Eoses. 



Early Eoses may be had by a very simple means, 

 but for commercial purposes some method of doing the 

 thing more to the purpose must be resorted to. I am 



