CHAPTER II 



STYLE OF HOUSES 



T N building a house for Rose growing, the most sheltered and 

 * sunny part of the field should be chosen where there is 

 room to run east and west. A good size for a beginner would 

 be a house 300 feet long and between 30 and 40 feet wide, al- 

 though the length and width may be greatly increased if de- 

 sired. Houses up to 32 feet in width may be built even span; 

 for houses much wider, three quarter span is better. Iron, or 

 semi-iron construction, is much in favor at the present time, 

 although good wooden houses are built for a little less money 

 and, if taken care of, will last a lifetime. 



There are a number of reliable firms of builders of green- 

 houses of every description, and it would be well to get esti- 

 mates and specifications from several of these and to compare 

 same carefully before giving out any contracts. If the order 

 is given in due season, these firms will erect a house in short 

 order and have it ready when they agree to, which is worth 

 a great deal when it is considered that every day's delay in 

 planting, after the first of July, means an actual money loss. 

 After the middle of July this loss has been placed at twenty- 

 five dollars per day for every day's delay in planting 10,000 

 square feet of bench surface. 



The material may be bought and erected by local labor, 

 from plans furnished, or the builders will erect the house. The 

 latter way would probably be the cheapest in the end for a man 

 with little experience in this work. One point worth remem- 

 bering is, that the average carpenter who has never erected an 

 iron frame greenhouse has a very poor idea of how to com- 

 mence and carry on the work. 



