CHAPTER VI. 
STAGING, BEDS, ETC. 
THE interior of a plant-house of any kind may be 
arranged in several different ways, as regards the 
disposition of the beds, stages, ete. The simplest method 
of arrangement for a plain span- “roofed structure of 9ft. 
or 1lOft. up to 12ft. or 
14ft. in width is to have 
a central pathway 23ft. or 
8ft. wide, and two solid 
raised beds, one on each 
side, as shown in Fig. 
100. This arrangement 
suits such plants as 
ordinary  ‘‘ geraniums,”’ 
fuchsias, cinerarias, primulas, etc., etc., with the usual run 
of ‘bedding plants,” admirably, whether the house is 
provided with side-ventilators or not, but the large-flowering 
pelargoniums, begonias (when grown in a cold house), and 
a few other things, thrive best on an open or lattice 
staging, where a current of air is always passing up through 
the plants. For such plants, a raised staging constructed 
as shown in Fig. 65 should be provided. 
A large quantity of material of some kind—such as 
ashes, clinkers, brick-rubbish, clay, or the like—is, however, 
Fic. 65. 
