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which runs into the gutter below, s, is 

 carried by the shoot F, which is attached to 



FIG. 2. GREENHOUSE (FRONT ELEVATION). 



the side of a small buttress down to the 

 ground at IT, into which it soon soaks away. 



Unless the floor of the house had been 

 carried to the depth of 18 inches below the 

 ground level, it would have been impos- 

 sible to have got a house of fair height 

 conveniently placed, for reasons that have 

 been already stated ; and when sketches 

 were being made for the plan, elevations, 

 &c., the covering in of the landing c, with 

 the verandah-like roof a, and the formation 

 of the shelf LK and the seat e, soon 

 suggested themselves. Thus, in whatever 

 building the amateur may undertake to 

 construct, it is not only necessary for him 

 to adapt the structure to the circumstances j 

 of position, but to consider how and in | 

 what way the position itself may be modi- 

 fied so as to promote convenience in the 

 building, whatever it may be, that is about 

 to be reared upon it. 



Having thus shown that the amateur 

 gardener need never despair of putting up 

 something in the shape, and to answer the i 



purpose, of a greenhouse, however un- 

 promising the locality on which it is pro- 

 posed to build it may be, it is ne- 

 cessary to state that the small 

 greenhouse just described is what 

 is termed a " lean-to." That the 

 amateur may not be without a 

 suitable design for a pretty " lean- 

 to " greenhouse to be erected 

 against a wall, and having glazed 

 ends, in one of which is the door, 

 the preceding remarks on green- 

 house building may be fairly sup- 

 plemented with illustrations and 

 a brief description of such a 

 structure. 



The greenhouse shown in the 

 accompanying diagrams, of which 

 Figs. 2 and 3 are the front and 

 end elevations of the house re- 

 spectively, may be built either as a 

 lean-to against a brick wall, or in- 

 dependently of any wall or structure behind, 

 in which case it must be furnished with a 

 back. A useful feature in this design is 



FIG. 3. GREENHOUSE (SIDF. OR KNI) ELEVATION). 



that any greenhouse built on this plan can 

 be easily taken to pieces and re-erected in 

 any other place at small cost. The ends 

 are each formed in a piece to move bodily, 



