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concrete. If the walls are tight and fertilizer sacks are hung 

 from the fronts of the shelves the space enclosed will be found to 

 be a fine place in summer to root large Croton and other cuttings 

 with nearly all their leaves, as it can be kept dark and close with 

 such degree of moisture as is needed. Such large cuttings make 

 fine plants almost at once. 



PLAN FOR A SIMPLE PLANT HOUSE. 



End elevation, showing how a substantial building for use in Florida can be put up at 

 small expense. It may be covered with glass or slats. (Fig. 5) 



On the south side of the slat house, or in any well-sheltered 

 spot nearby, it is an excellent plan to have a glass covered frame, 

 even if of only a single sash. In this, if it is exposed to the sun 

 and well covered on cold nights, many very tender things can be 

 kept through the winter that would perish out of doors or in an 

 ordinary slat house. Such things as the Dieffenbachias, He- 

 migraphis and the Fittonias are sometimes killed by cold when 

 there is no actual frost. Cuttings of many tropical plants not 

 all can be rooted in such a frame in winter if it is handled rightly, 

 and seeds of the more tender things can be started. Where a 

 large collection of plants is to be propagated and cultivated a 

 glass-covered house is very convenient and almost necessary. 



It may be made in the simplest form by sinking in the ground, 

 say a couple of feet, a pit the size of the future structure. Then 

 lengthwise through the middle of it a trench about three feet wide 

 is to be excavated a couple of feet deeper. The building may be 



