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How TO Grow Cut Flowers. 



Fig. 6. 



A noted grower near New York has recently bir 

 a few houses upon a plan differing materially fro 

 that of any others. The frame is iron, built in tl 

 usual way — three-fourths span. The north and sou 

 walls, as well as the ends, are also constructed of gla 

 to within two feet of the ground, and with side ven 

 lation in both walls. The house is twenty feet 

 width, with two benches, the sides of which are t^ 

 feet deep. A path runs all around the house betwe^ 

 the walls and benches. There is also a path betwe' 

 the beds. The main peculiarity consists in the constn 

 tion of the beds. The first sixteen inches is made 

 broken stone, through the center of which three oi 

 inch steam pipes pass at such distances from each otl 



