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if not, whether he will incur the expense of two ; and 

 again, whether he will have two rows or one in his peach- 

 house. An ordinary furnace will, with ordinary care, suf- 

 ficiently heat five thousand five hundred cuhic feet of 

 ail-. -Now, if a single furnace is to command the entire 

 peach-house, it must not include more than that space. 

 Tin's may take any convenient form. The most common 

 is a longitudinal one. A very convenient peach-house will 



Fig. 25.— PEACH-HOUSE. 



be 50 feet long, 13 feet wide, and 4 feet high on the south 

 side, and 14 on the north, as in fig. 25. 



The north wall may be of almost any material — ^brick, 

 stone, or wood. The south side of a stable, bam, or 

 warehouse, may sometimes be appropriated for the back 

 of the peach-house. The south wall is also solid, and may 

 be made of any material suitable for any other kind of 

 building. The ends are usually solid also, but not neces- 

 sarily so ; and in shady places, it is advisable that the 

 west end be of glass, like the roof. Remember the di- 

 mensions : North wall, 14 feet high, and 50 feet long ; 

 south wall, 4 feet liigh, and 50 feet long ; each end 12 

 feet long, 4 feet high at south end, sloping upwards and 



