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CHAP. XVII. 



REMARKS ON THE DIMENSIONS, &C. SUITABLE 

 FOR ORCHARD-HOUSES. 



ALTHOUGH a number of these interesting struc- 

 tures are now in full work, and are becoming 

 more known daily, as may be seen from the 

 number of inquiries made respecting my own, 

 and those of others, perhaps a few remarks on 

 their dimensions and form may not be out of 

 place. A lean-to Orchard-house, thirty feet 

 long, should be thirteen feet wide. If the back 

 wall be twelve feet high, that is ample ; and the 

 front should be about four or five feet high, but 

 not more. Shutters from twelve to fifteen inches 

 in width all along the front, which is conveniently 

 made of half-inch boards, and about half of the 

 same quantity of ventilation at the back, are re- 

 quired. Glass ventilators, swinging on pivots, 

 instead of wooden ones, are more expensive, but 

 where this is of no consequence, much preferable. 

 Such a house need not cost 30Z. 



A lean-to house, 100 feet long or more, with 

 walls fifteen feet high, and eighteen or twenty 



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