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THE AMATEUE's GREENHOUSE 



crops were oDtained. This, indeed, was one of the roughest 

 and most useful houses we ever had, for many stove-plauts 

 throve in it, owing to its retention of sun-heat and its damp 

 situatioQ. In autumn a wooden trellis was laid over the bed 



INTEEIOE OF LEAN-TO HEATED BY MUSGKAVE 3 SLOW COMBUSTION STOVE. 



in front, and on this bedding plants were closely packed, and 

 generally got through the winter well with the aid of a Mus- 

 grave's stove that cost £6, and was fitted with a flue consist- 

 ing of four-inch glazed drain-pipes. The bare space on the 

 back wall, seen in the view of the interior, was occupied during 

 winter with tall geraniums, that were kept for making pyra- 

 mids in the flower-garden during the summer. The reason for 

 the adoption of the Musgrave stove was, that it was impossi- 

 ble to obtain sufficient depth to make a proper stoke-hole for 

 a furnace, owing to the water in the soil, and the reason the 

 house was built at so low a level was, that it should not be seen 

 above the line of the fence, as that would have spoiled a pretty 

 view. Thus it is that extreme cases occur, and have to be met 

 as best they may. 



A nearly similar case occurred with a couple of houses which 

 were so near the winter water level that it was a difficult 



