February 4, 1891.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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The house is a span roof with seven-foot ridge eighteen feet do the erecting in two or three days. The side-walls are of 



by eight feet (a width of nine or ten feet would be better, and hemlock boards, covered with building paper, and faced with 



would cost only a trifle more). It is covered with sash for patent sheathing boards, which answer capitally to keep out 



fifteen feet and boarded for three feet over the furnace. The cold. The heater, pipes, etc., suitable for such a house, ready 



■Viola ocellata. — See page 51. 



lumber cost within a few cents of twenty-five dollars, the sash 

 twenty dollars, the paint, etc., perhaps five dollars ; in all fifty 

 dollars for materials. The labor bill will depend somewhat 

 on one's own handiness, or the activity of the builder, who will 



for screwing together, may be had for fifty dollars cash, so 

 that an expenditure of $100 to $110 will furnish one with a 

 small plain house, quite large enough for an amateur gardener 

 who is engaged during the day in other occupation. If larger, 



