WINTER WORK IN GLASS HOUSES 



in the long run by far the cheaper and more sat- 

 isfactory construction. 



The glass should be " double thick." It will 

 save its extra cost within a year or two in the 

 lesser breakage, besides assuring a warmer 

 house. The difference in price is about sixty 

 cents more on a box (22 lights) of 14 by 14 

 double-thick light. 



No matter how finely constructed a glass 

 house may be, if the heating arrangements are 

 not satisfactory only failure will result; for 

 nothing could be more exasperating, for in- 

 stance, than to have the temperature fall during 

 the night in a house filled with ripening toma- 

 toes, and in a few hours to have lost the work 

 of weeks, and then to have to start all over 

 again. 



The writer much prefers the hot-water sys- 

 tem of heating, although many have had good 

 results with steam. The modern hot-water 

 boiler comes conveniently in sections, and no 

 tools are required to set it up save a monkey- 

 wrench and a screw-driver. Moreover, if two 

 or more boilers are required they may be placed 

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