36 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



It should be erected in a position where it will be fully 

 exposed to the sun during the whole day. The structure 

 may be entirely of wood, the sides being secured by posts 

 extending 5 feet out of the ground at 6 feet apart, and 

 the span roof supported by uprights in the centre. These 

 uprights should be galvanised 2-inch hollow columns, with 

 a cross slot at the top to take the pitch board and keep 

 it in position, and the feet should be set in concrete. 

 The feet of these upright posts should be about 8 inches 

 square, flat, and a firm foundation should be made on 

 a flat stone or bricks to prevent sinking, on which the 

 concrete should fix the posts. 



The house should be as large as space permits, as 

 the temperature is much easier to control in a house of 

 some extent. It should have a wide door at each end to 

 admit a barrow or hand-barrow, and the triangular portion 

 over the door should be made to open for ventilation. 

 Means of ventilation should be also provided all round 

 at every other opening between the posts. 



A house 50 feet long and 20 feet wide is a useful 

 size, and there should be an oblong bed in the centre, 

 8 feet wide, bordered on each side by a path 3 feet wide. 

 This will leave an outside border of 3 feet all round, 

 and would accommodate, say, forty pot trees set at first 

 at 4 feet apart to be thinned out later when they have 

 made growth. 



On each side of the path, at 6 feet apart, slight (2x2) 

 wooden uprights should be fixed to the rafters, alternately, 

 so that they run zigzag. On these uprights choice Pears 

 can be trained as cordons, and if desired they may be 

 allowed to extend and arch over the path, and also the 



