172 GARDENING FOR PLEASURE, 



The following are a few styles of greenhouse structures 

 of finer finish than most of the preceding. It is all im- 

 portant that the highhs, angles, etc., be kept as near to 

 the plans given as possible, as each plan we believe to be 

 as near correct as it well can be, to give the best results 

 in culture. No scale is given, but a scale can easily be 

 adapted from any of the accompanying measurements. 



Figure 58 is taken from Lord and Burnbam's book of 

 greenhouse plans, and represents a three-quarter span 

 house, seventeen by sixty, ridge eight feet, heated by six 

 runs of four-inch pipes for hot water. It is the most 

 useful style of all greenhouse structures, and is used for 

 the model rose house, but can be adapted to the grow- 

 ing of all kinds of flowering plants for winter blooming, 

 or for forcing strawberries, cucumbers, and other fruits or 

 vegetables. The estimated cost of such a structure (if the 

 frame and walls are made of wood, and, as a general 

 tiling, we advise them made of wood) would be from 

 one dollar and twenty-five cents to one dollar and fifty 

 cents per foot for the ground area covered by the house ; 

 that is, a house seventeen by sixty at one dollar and twen- 

 ty-five cents would cost $1,275 for the whole structure 

 complete, including the heating by steam or hot water, 

 ventilating apparatus, etc. Of course, the cost would be 

 lessened in proportion to the size of the buildings. The 

 engraving shows the walls to be formed of brick; but this, 

 is not only more costly, but, in our experience, is not so 

 good as wood. (See Greenhouse Structures.) 



Figure 59 represents a greenhouse twenty by sixty, 

 ridge eleven feet high, full span. The ground plan shows 

 it to be divided in the center by a glass partition, so that, 

 thus divided, it can, if required, be used for greenhouse 

 and hothouse plants by simply adding two additional pipes 

 to the section used for the hothouse ; or one section may 

 be used as a rose house and the other for greenhouse 

 plants. The construction is the same as recommended 



