74 ROSES 



THE HOUSE 



A good house is essential. Without an 

 adequate structure full success cannot be 

 expected. But that statement need not deter 

 anyone from making the attempt in a reason- 

 ably well built and sufficiently lighted house 

 where the heat can be had. The type of 

 house most favoured for forcing roses was 

 formerly what is known as the three-quarter 

 span, in which one side of the roof was much 

 wider than the other. Nowadays opinion is 

 equally favourable to the even span. On a 

 hillside the former style of house is to be 

 preferred, as it possesses some structural 

 advantages. The long slope of such a house 

 is to be open to the south, so as to receive the 

 greatest amount of sunlight. All houses of 

 whatever pattern will, of course, be run east 

 and west. On a hillside such a house does 

 not have an excessively high wall on the north 

 side which it has, of course, when built on the 

 level. The three-quarter-span roof makes 

 the house very high in the centre, as a regular 

 pitch of seven and one-half inches to the foot 

 is maintained. The even-span house, in 

 which both sides of the roof are of the same 



