AUGUST: FOURTH WEEK 



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A Larger House 



If you happen to live in a section where many of your 

 friends and neighbors have gardens, it will probably repay 

 you well to put up a larger house and grow extra plants to 

 sell in the spring. For a small practical house of this sort, 

 two good forms of construction are shown in the accompany- 

 ing cuts. The details of construction are much the same as 

 those shown for the former house already described. Special 

 fittings are made to use in connection with the pipe posts, 

 frame, and sup- 

 ports, and there 

 is no reason why 

 one ordinarily 

 skillful with 

 tools cannot do 

 the biggest part 

 of the work of 

 building a small 

 house himself. 

 In many parts 

 of the house iron may be used in place of the wooden parts I 

 have described. The cost is more, but repairs are eliminated. 

 Before building a house of any size, you should get cata- 

 logues from some of the greenhouse companies and make 

 yourself familiar with the different methods of construction. 



No matter how small your house is, however, plan it 

 carefully in every detail before ordering the material. The 

 plan and list of material above should not be used unless it 

 fits in with your particular requirements. 



Beginning Work on the Greenhouse 



As you may buy the posts, boarding, shingles, etc., lo- 

 cally, you can get the work well under way without waiting 

 for the other materials to arrive. Level off the site you have 

 selected, and make your measurements carefully. To get 

 the plan square, be sure that the diagonals, from opposite 



