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Februakv 17, lyiO. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



79 



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feet, above which a row of sashes con- 

 taining 30-inch glass should be placed. 

 If the sashbars are given a pitch of about 

 .\0 degrees, it will be found satisfactory. 



GLASS BROKEN BY FROST. 



I am just now much interested in 

 greenhouse construction and heating. An 

 article in the Heating columns of the 

 Review of December 30, telling where the 

 expansion tank should be placed, ex- 

 plained one of my troubles. 



How wide should I make a house with 

 sashbars sixteen feet long? I want to 

 include as much ground room as possible 

 and yet I want the roof steep enough. 

 Last year I had over a dozen panes of 

 glass broken in one house by the frost. 

 The moisture collected in the lap of the 

 glass. When the sun went down, there 

 was a sound like that of firecrackers in 

 every part of the house, and before I 

 could boost the fire suflSciently to coun- 

 terbalance the withdrawal of the sun's 

 lieat a dozen panes of glass were broken. 

 I felt certain that a steeper roof would 

 have been better. B. M. E. 



Houses with rafters sixteen feet long 

 are built anywhere from twenty-six to 

 twenty-eight feet in width. A house with 

 a roof at an angle of 30 degrees answers 

 well and it is seldom advisable to make 

 the angle more than 35 degrees. 



It is not likely that the slope of the 

 roof had much to do with the breaking 

 of the glass, as the amount of water that 

 will collect between the panes will be 

 about the same at a roof slope of 45 de- 

 f?rees as at one of 25 degrees. Provided 

 the house has wooden sash bars and the 

 glass does not fit so tightly between the 

 bars as to bind, the trouble is most likely 

 caused by too wide laps of the glass. 

 When this does not exceed three-six- 

 teenths of an inch, there will be no 

 trouble from the cracking of the glass 

 ''.y the ice which forms between the edges 

 I'f the panes. There is no occasion for 

 'laving the laps wider than this and even 

 "nc-eighth of an inch will answer if the 

 ^.lass is carefully laid. 



PiTTSFlELD, Mass. — B. Engelman, 

 * iiose range formerly contained 13,000 

 ■ luare feet of glass, is now adding three 

 Tore houses — one, 30x150, for carna- 

 ' ;ins; one, 15x65, for violets, and one, 



'x60, for roses. 



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