126 WORK UNDER GLASS 



Here is one that may be of general interest : 



" No student to work in or enter houses in wet 

 garments. 



" Put your oilskins on the ground near the door, 

 and take off your hats. 



" No student to bang the greenhouse doors, or to 

 shout loudly whilst working. Plants, especially 

 cyclamen, tomatoes, fuchsias, and, in a lesser degree, 

 carnations, do not like noise. It shocks their 

 system and retards growth." 



It has been brought home to me repeatedly that 

 Miss More is right in issuing these orders, for the 

 clean, bright, and thoroughly happy appearance of 

 plants and flowers that have been under her care 

 is a great contrast to the half-starved, diseased, 

 unclean ones that are often to be seen in gardens 

 where much money is expended upon them and 

 the results should reach perfection, but, alas, are 

 merely proof of inattention. 



Let us respect orders, and very silently and 

 gently push the handle of the market-house door 

 to see what the dullest days of the year can show 

 under glass. The building measures forty-three 

 feet in length by twenty feet in width, but is 

 partitioned off and forms two houses with an ar- 

 rangement by which the temperature of each can 

 be separately regulated. The pipes run high over- 

 head as well as beneath the staging, which is the 

 most satisfactory way of heating houses, because 

 warmth is thus more evenly distributed throughout 

 the interior. Wooden shelves are suspended just 

 above the highest pipes, and plants that stand on 

 these benefit from the extra heat which thus rises 



