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THE NEW ONION CULTURE 



A building of this kind is much better and handier 

 — and cheaper in the end, because more satisfactory 

 and more proHfic of results — than ordinary hotbeds. 

 If you are not afraid to invest an extra one hundred 

 dollars or so, better put in a hot water heater, with the 

 necessary pipes. The house will be managed with 

 one-half the labor, and double the satisfaction. 



A neat little greenhouse well suited to the needs of 

 the small grower and amateur, is shown in Figs 8 and 

 9. It is a double-span house, a little more costly than 

 the other, but extremely convenient, and fit for raising 



Fig 8 — SMALL GREENHOUSE — ELEVATION 



any kind of vegetable or flower plants, or forcing any 

 kind of ordinary vegetable. The pit for the heater 

 is dug at the north end of one of the spans. If I 

 build another, however, I should have only one span 

 of double the length. 



Many other styles of greenhouses might be men- 

 tioned. Some growers who have a lot of hotbed sash 

 available for the purpose will wish to put up a cheap 

 structure and utilize their stock of sashes for the roof. 

 A house of this kind does not cost much, and with a 

 little ingenuity and good management may be made 

 to answer any purpose of an onion plant nursery. 

 It should be remembered that onion plants are quite 



