A Sjnall Cheap Pi'opagating-House. 



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A SMALL CHEAP PROPAGATING-HOUSE. 



• A PROPAGATING-HOUSE, or pit, is One of the chief necessities of a country 

 phice. By its aid the garden can always be well supplied with bedding- 

 plants in the summer, and the parlor may be made gay with flowers during 

 the inclement winter months. It is also valuable as a place for preserving 

 bulbs and tubers during the winter, and the ease and small expense of heat- 

 ing it render it attainable to all. The following plans show a cheap and 

 pretty design which any carpenter and mason can construct : — 



The propagating-bed is of brick, single width, and nine courses high ; 

 size, three feet by ten. Common slate is laid on the top, supported by brick, 

 laid up for the purpose from the top of the flue. A space of half an inch 

 may be left between the slates. On the side, a few openings should be left 

 for ventilation, so arranged as to be closed at pleasure. 



Make a frame the size of the top of the bed, of plank, ten inches wide 

 by one and a quarter thick : set this on the top of the bed, and run an iron 

 through the centre to prevent the sides from spreading. In tlfis frame, and 

 on top of the slates, place three inches of pebbles about the size of hickor)-- 

 nuts ; then one inch of fine gravel ; then, filling the bed with fine sand, it is 

 ready for use. 



