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a happy medium between these costly iron structures 

 and the cheap, short-lived buildings we so often meet, 

 in the construction of which there is no economy. 



If you are in a location where lumber is cheap, and 

 where all that is needed in building can be readily 

 obtained, it will of course be to your interest to patron- 

 ize your home market ; but even in this case, it will 

 doubtless save you time and money to order your roof 

 of some person or firm making a specialty of this class 

 of work, whose advertisements may be fotind in the 

 trade journals. In regard to the kind of lumber to use, 

 the part just referred to is at the present time mostly 

 made of cypress, and is, probably, as cheap and durable 

 as any. At the present writing, I am repairing houses 

 built ten years since, the roofing of which was white 

 pine, and with few exceptions, the indications would 

 seem to be thiat the sash bars are good for ten years 

 more. Whatever kind of wood you select for the roof, 

 gutters and posts, discard every piece showing any sap, 

 as it will soon decay and destroj^ the whole or render 

 repairs necessary at an early date. The desirability of 

 building houses three-fourths span with a south expo- 

 sure, has been unquestioned by all the best growers. 

 The general impression seems to be no other pitch 

 can give as good results in December and January, 

 the months when cut flowers pay the best. If 

 properly constructed as regards ventilation, the tem- 

 perature can be kept unxler control during the warm 



