GARDENING FOE PROFIT. 



in this country, is certainly new in its almost universal adop- 

 tion by commercial gardeners, in all houses erected dur- 

 ing the past five years in the neighborhood of New York ; 

 it has great advantages over the detached system, be- 

 ing less expensive in heating, more saving of space, and, 

 above all, far more economical in cost of construction. 

 I prefer having only three together^ for the reason that, 

 when we have the snow to clear away, it is quickly done by 



being shoveled from the 

 two valleys or furrows 

 over the ridges ; although 

 we have one grower in 

 this neighborhood who 

 has 12 connected houses, 

 and finds but little trouble 

 with snow; our snows 

 being mostly from the 

 North, the shed breaks 

 them off in a great meas- 

 ure, and uhat blows over, 

 blows mostly off through 

 the valley between the 

 The water from 



the gutter is led into a 

 cistern, at the south end 

 Fig. 24. WEST'S FORCE PUMP. o f the green-houses, of a 

 capacity of not less than 3000 cubic feet, if 5000, all the bet- 

 ter ; to this is connected a West's Force Pump, fig. 24, with 

 150 feet of 1^-inch hose, and to the end of the hose is attach- 

 ed a heavy sprinkler. One man pumps, and another regu- 

 lates the water and sprinkles it over the plants. My estab- 



