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How TO Grow Cut Flowers. 



Gas pipe in bench construction, though expensive 

 at first, is durable. So also is that made of rejected 

 street car rails, and when such can be obtained at the 

 cost of old iron they are not very expensive. Angle 

 iron has also been used by some, but one grower who 

 built with it tells me he thinks its life not long enough 

 1o repay the outlay, as it rusts and scales rapidly. 



Whatever the method adopted, let no part of the 

 weight of the bench be borne by the walls. This is of 

 great importance. The side benches can be fastened 

 to the walls as a means of bracing, but shores should 

 be provided to carry the benches, otherwise the weight 

 will soon throw the gutter out of a straight line. For 

 the bottoming of benches, nothing in my estimation, 

 is better than the most lasting kinds of wood. For 

 j.ot growing, either slate or tile may be the most 

 economical in the end, but for cut flowers, tile slabs 

 dry so quickly as to make their use hazardous in un- 

 skilled hands. 



Fig. 8. 



