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as well as for a grapery. The dimensions are fifty feet long 

 by twenty-five feet wide. It is finished in very good style, 

 and cost but little more than $1,000 without artificial heat. 

 If heated by hot-water pipes, as shown in the interior 

 view, it would cost about $500 more, or 1,500 complete, 

 It was planted in June, and the third year from planting 

 we cut upwards of 300 pounds of fruit from it. The next 

 season it yielded nearly double that quantity. The build- 

 ing was begun by setting locust posts four feet apart. 

 On these was framed the sill, on the front of which were 

 placed upright sashes two and a half feet in hight, and 

 on these the gutter. From the gutter was sprung the 

 bars, ten inches apart each way, running on the west side 

 clear to the ridge pole ; on the east framed to within two 

 feet of it, so as to give room for lifting sashes. These 

 were two feet wide by six feet long. To these sashes, 

 eight in number, were attached the patent ventilating 

 apparatus, which, by turning a crank, opens these sashes 

 from one to twenty-four inches, as desired. The front 

 sashes may be made so that every alternate one can open 

 outward. With the instructions given in the chapters 

 on Greenhouse Structures, any intelligent mechanic should 

 be able to build from this plan, though, whenever green- 

 houses or graperies are to be erected on a large scale, it 

 will always be found to be the cheapest and most satisfac- 

 tory plan to have it done by a regular greenhouse archi- 

 tect. If there is no city or hydrant water, provision should 

 be made by building a cistern inside the grapery, say four 

 feet deep by eight feet in diameter, or of that capacity 

 in an oblong shape would be better. This cistern can be 

 supplied by water from the roof, having a waste pipe for 

 overflow. These general directions for such a structure 

 as is shown in the cut, figure 78, are equally applicable 

 for almost any size or kind of grapery. Many are built 

 in the form of a "lean to ;" that is, placed against any 

 building or fence, using such for the back wall of the 



