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usual, with an open roof, our plants have the light on all sides ; con- 

 sequently they are never drawn. Besides this, instead of a single 

 walk down the front of the house, at the end of which you are forced 

 to wheel about, like a grenadier, and return ; you have the agreea- 

 ble variety of making the entire circuit of the house, reaching the 

 same spot again, with something new before you at every step. 

 This walk is 2 feet wide. The stage for the tall plants is a paral- 

 lelogram, in, the middle of the house, c, 7 feet wide ; the shelf, which 

 borders the margin of the house, d, is about 1 8 inches wide. This 

 will hold all the small pots, the more delicate growing plants, the 

 winter-flowering bulbs, and all those little favorites which of them- 

 selves like best to be near the light, and which one likes to have 

 near the eye. It is quite incredible what a number of dozen of 

 small plants this single shelf, running nearly all round, will hold. 



FIG. 2. Plan of a small Green-House. 



Now let us take a glance at the plai? of the section of the green- 

 house, fig. 3, which may be supposed 10 be a slice down through 

 the end of it. The sides of the house are 8 feet high. They con- 

 sist of a row of sashes (/), 3 feet high, placed just below the plate 

 that supports the roof, and a wall, A, on which these sashes stand. 

 This may be a wall of brick or stone (if of the former, 8 inches 



