CHAPTEE XI. 



THE CALCEOLARIA AND CINERARIA HOUSE. 



THE Calceolaria and Cineraria are two such well-known 

 species that they need no description, although for 



FIG. 25. SECTION OP A SIXTY-FEET SPAN-ROOF CARNATION HOUSE, 

 EIGHTEEN FEET WIDE. 



Keference 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 ; D D, 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. 



F F 



END SECTION OF HOUSE. 



all that, practical treatises never seem to be out of 

 place regarding them. They are usually considered 



