THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



plenty, and the frame, if necessary, can be made 

 on the place, of pine boards; the back should 

 be sixteen Inches high and the front eight Inches. 

 Painted properly they will last for several years. 

 The most convenient way would be to make 

 three 2-sash frames; and if this is done a sash 

 bar must be run through the middle of the 

 frame the long way of the sash. 



The art of raising flowers, fruits, vegetables, 

 etc., under glass can be acquired only by much 

 reading and resulting experiments. It takes 

 observation and patience to understand grad- 

 ually the necessary care of hothouse products. 

 Fortunately there are many books waiting to 

 be read by the uninitiated, such, for Instance, 

 as Taft's on " Greenhouse Management," 

 which Is a capital treatise on the subject; and 

 the " Forcing Book," by L. H. Bailey, Is one 

 that should be in every country gentleman's 

 library. 



The novice will do well to bear in mind that 

 in forcing plants In winter he Is trying to re- 

 v^erse nature's laws, and must, therefore, repro- 

 duce as nearly as possible the conditions in his 



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