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if not, whether he will incur the expense of two ; and 

 again, whether he will have two rows or one in his peach- 

 house. An ordinary furnace will, with ordinary care, suf- 

 ficiently heat five thousand five hundred cubic feet of 

 air. Now, if a single furnace is to command the entire 

 peach-house, it must not include more than that space. 

 This may take any convenient form. The most common 

 is a longitudinal one. A very convenient peach-house will 



Fig. 25. PEACH-HOUSE. 



be 50 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 4 feet high on the south 

 side, and 14 on the north, as in fig. 25. 



The north wall may be of almost any material brick, 

 stone, or wood. The south side of a stable, barn, or 

 warehouse, may sometimes be appropriated for the back 

 of the peach-house. The south Avail is also solid, and may 

 be made of any material suitable for any other kind of 

 building. The ends are usually solid also, but not neces- 

 sarily so ; and in shady places, it is advisable that the 

 west end be of glass, like the roof. Remember the di- 

 mensions : North wall, 14 feet high, and 50 feet long ; 

 south wall, 4 feet high, and 50 feet long; each end 12 

 feet long, 4 feet high at south end, sloping upwards and 



