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MINNESOTA 



12. In one season I used 470 tons of Illinois coal (cost- 

 ing $1,424) in four houses 16 x2oo ft., four houses i6x 100 

 ft. , and nine houses 20 x 90 ft. The next season I added 

 two houses 35 x 200 ft. each, and then used 850 tons, 

 costing $3, 238. By rearranging the steam pipes, I heated 

 these same houses the following two winters with 649 

 tons and 608 tons respectively. 



INDIANA 



13. I use natural gas, and cannot give figures. 



One good man should attend to four such houses, if he 

 has help for four weeks in planting, etc. 



14. A three-fourths span house, 20 ft. wide and n ft. 

 high, in an exposed place, cost us in 1895-6 at the rate of 

 $89.04 for a house 100 ft. long (coal $2 per ton). We can 

 reduce this figure somewhat by careful management. An 

 equal span, 20 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, cost us about 

 $35.20 per loo ft. This house is on the sheltered side of 

 the range. (This correspondent is on the Ohio river.) 



One good workman should attend to about five such 

 houses, in roses. 

 ILLINOIS- 

 IS. It cost me last winter (1895-6) for coal, for rose 

 house aoxiooft., as nearly as I can figure the propor- 

 tion, $50, with soft coal at $2.30 per ton, and the use of 

 some slack at 75 cents and $i per ton. This house is 

 three-fourths span and 12 ft. high. 



In my place, where cut flowers and pot plants are both 

 handled, and with a retail trade to wait on, it requires 

 about one man to a house 20 x 100 ft. If I were growing 

 only roses, I should not need so much help. 

 PENNSYLVANIA 



16. Such a house in roses here (Philadelphia) would 

 require about 12 tons of pea coal at $3.25, or 9 tons of 

 larger size at $5.50. 

 An experienced rose grower ought to manage 5,000 



