THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



cents a running foot (hot water system in small 

 pipes used). For roses a good man should 

 manage 400 feet of a house twenty feet wide." 



Another man says: "I should estimate 

 twelve tons of coal for a house 20 by 100 feet, 

 and a man should handle eight thousand or ten 

 thousand square feet of glass in roses." 



Another writes: "I have about 15,000 

 square feet of glass in ten houses. I grow 

 roses, carnations, violets, plants, etc. Four of 

 my own family, including myself, work in the 

 houses, and I usually keep one man besides. 

 Outside my own family it costs me about two 

 thousand dollars a year to run my place — for 

 coal, help, repairs, water rent, taxes, bulbs, 

 insurance, lumber for boxes, and all other inci- 

 dentals." 



From Pennsylvania we have the following: 

 " One good man should give good results in 

 two houses, 20 by 100 feet, with hot water, fif- 

 teen tons of egg hard coal." 



New Jersey reports: "My rose house, 20 

 by 80 feet, consumes about nine or ten tons of 

 coal yearly. Two houses, 20 by 100 feet, are 

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