CHAPTER VIII. 



THE PINK AND CARNATION FORCING HOUSE. 



FROM a commercial point of view these flowers are 

 not much, understood as a lucrative class for forcing. 



FIG. 24. SECTION or A SIXTY-FEET SPAN-ROOF CARNATION HOUSE, 



EIGHTEEN FEET WIDE. 



Reference to plan, a a a a, top ventilators ; B B B, sliding sashes ; c c c c c, zinc 

 shutters, made to lift up and down in runs for the admission of air, when the 

 sashes, B,' cannot be opened ; DD, staging all round the house, two feet three 

 inches wide, to hold three rows of carnations ; E, the centre stand, showing how 

 the fixed troughs are made for the plants, nine inches wide and seven inches deep ; 

 F, hot-water pipes ; G, pathway. 



END SECTION OF HOUSE. 



Nor do many seem to succeed well with them. I at- 

 tribute failure chiefly to one cause: like most other 



