CHAPTEK XII. 



THE GENERAL PLANT FORCING HOUSE. 



As a rule most people, both amateurs and professionals, 

 find it necessary to force various sorts of flowers, shrubs, 



FIG. 26. SECTION OP A MISCELLANEOUS FORCING HOUSE. 

 Forty feet long, eleven feet wide, thirteen feet high at back, five feet high in front. 



END SECTION OP HOUSE, SHOWING PIT AND PIPES. 



References to house. a a a a, top ventilators, to open by cords and pulleys ; B B, 

 sliding sashes in front ; c c c c, zinc shutters, to slide up and down to admit air 

 when the front sashes cannot be opened ; D, doorway ; E, double set of hot- water 

 pipes ; /, the tan bed, for plunging pots of flowering shrubs, &c. ; G, the pathway 

 all round. 



and roots in the same house. For a good compact 

 place for an amateur or a man having a small business 



