Greenhouse Construction 



twenty shillings expended. We must all recognise that 

 it is necessary for a greenhouse to be dry in itself, and 

 able also to keep out the wet in the interest of its 

 occupants, that it is sufficiently strong to withstand the 

 wind, and sufficiently tight to keep out a great deal of 

 it ; that, moreover, it admits a large quantity of light 

 and has ventilators so fixed as to arrange a large influx 

 of air from either quarter. If, then, the material is dur- 

 able and useful, and means can be taken by hot-water 

 heating, or otherwise, to keep out the frost, we have all 

 the essential qualities of a greenhouse. A man holding 

 premises as a tenant has not the same opportunity as 

 a person possessing a freehold, for it is certain that 

 men are so built up that they object to erecting green- 

 houses, &c., for the ultimate use of people probably 

 better circumstanced than themselves. A man deserves 

 to reap what he sows, and hence in this matter he 

 must seek some method of constructing a greenhouse 

 without prejudice to his own interest. In such a case 

 he will have to content himself with what is known as 

 a "tenant's fixture." These need to be so fixed that 

 they can be taken away at expiration of the lease with- 

 out injury to the ground. Before erecting a house of 

 this sort it is better to become somewhat acquainted 

 with the law in that respect. 



In happier circumstances, the amateur would probably 

 have put in brick foundations and brick walls. The 

 foundation should be twice the width of the wall. Now, pre- 

 suming the wall is to be nine inches wide (and it should cer- 

 tainly be no less), the foundation would be eighteen inches. 

 Over the wall should be glass and wood-work for quite 



