WINTER WORK IN GLASS HOUSES 



ries, and the odor of clean, damp earth. Then 

 the manual work, though constant, is not irk- 

 some. Enthusiasm must be the key-note, com- 

 bined with a patient willingness to study and 

 make use of the successes and failures of others. 



One should begin in a modest way, for glass 

 houses are expensive to build, demand constant 

 repair, and are costly to run. The largest 

 single item of outlay will be coal; and on this 

 very vital point some light may be had from 

 the experience of those who have been most 

 successful. The following experiences were 

 gathered by Professor Bailey of Cornell. One 

 grower from Massachusetts writes that he uses 

 eighteen tons of coal to run a house 20 by 100 

 feet, even span, ten feet high at the ridge, and 

 that one man will care for two or three houses, 

 if he be active and thorough, and keep them 

 clean and in first-class order. 



From New York State several of these grow- 

 ers send reports. One of them writes: "I 

 am heating 500 lineal feet of rose house twenty 

 feet wide and eleven feet high at a cost of three 

 hundred and thirty-three dollars, or sixty-five 

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