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house by covering it with window-sashes, and. heating it with an oil-stove. 

 In competent hands an outfit of this kind would do wonders. 



VII. A Greenhouse Near Cincinnat. 

 By E. T. Harvey 



My greenhouse is built on the east side of the house, and is connected 

 with the dining-room by two doors, which were formerly windows. 

 A window from the kitchen also looks into it. Altogether, it is 

 thirty-four feet long, part of it 

 twelve feet wide, and the exten- 

 sion with sloping glass roof is 

 eight feet wide. As its appear- 

 ance indicates, it has grown from 

 time to time, and I think for that 

 reason it seems to fit into the 

 situation better. 



A flower bed about two and 

 one-half feet wide, which runs 

 all around the house and next '^'- ^- '^- ^^'"^^'^ '"°''"' greenhouse at Bond hhi. ohio 

 to the walk, serves as an ideal place for Dutch bulbs, and it is made 

 thoroughly impervious to moles. During the summer it is mostly filled with 

 pot plants from the greenhouse. The flowering vines, as shown m the 

 picture, are tall nasturtiums, which are still blooming until the middle 

 of November. 



At the south end of the greenhouse I have a large cold-pit. This I 

 reserve for the tender roses and half-hardy plants. In addition to this, 

 I have another pit for sweet violets, and I have a large lot entirely 

 devoted to flowers, flowering shrubs, and trees, so there is considerable 

 to look after. 



My greenhouse is heated with a hot-water heater that also suppHes 

 the eight-room dwelling house. I have always used anthracite coal, as it 

 makes a more reliable, steady heat. In cold weather I try to arrange to 

 have the fire at its best about two or three in the morning, and it lasts from 

 ten at night until six or seven next morning. I have curtains to let down 

 at some of the windows in the greenhouse, and when the mercury gets into 



