CONSTRUCTION OF HOT-HOUSBS. S6^ 



SECT. I. 



ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOT-HOUSES. 



Various are the ideas entertained, and the devices 

 practised on this subject, and very far have some 

 late schemers misled the pubHc ; who have held 

 out a show of economy, and persuaded many to 

 alter well constructed hot-houses to mere gim- 

 cracks ; with hot air flues, and cold air flues ; iin- 

 proved furnaces that set the house on fire, by way 

 of keeping up a regular heat ! double roofings ; in- 

 ner roofings ; and much other nonsense, too tedi- 

 ous to enumerate. 



Very much, too much stress has been laid on the 

 construction of hot-houses ; and the failure of crops 

 has often unjustly been imputed to their defaults. 

 When matters go wrong, through the inattention 

 and carelessness of servants, the blame must be laid 

 somewhere ; and it is as easy to lay it to the con-^ 

 struction of the house, as to the sign of the jSun or 

 the King's Arms. Still, it is granted that many 

 houso§ are faulty, and might be remedied at a trining 



