190 How TO Grow Cut Flowers. 



The farther north we go, the more desirable it is to 

 bring the plants as near the glass as possible. Where a 

 wall of suitable height is available, a "lean to" can be 

 added that will accomplish the end sought, but the or- 

 dinary south walls of houses built for other purposes 

 are so low, the roof for an addition of this kind must 

 necessarily be rather flat, and head room obtained by 

 excavating a path along the wall is not desirable. Both 

 of these methods are open to objections and are unsat- 

 isfactory. 



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Fig. 38. 



If the room can be utilized, an excellent plan is to 

 build an equal span roof twelve feet wide, using the 

 north part for propagating and the south bench for vio- 

 lets. (See Fig. 38.) In this case it will be found ad- 

 vantageous to support each roof with purlins and posts 

 made of one inch gas pipe, in order to use as little wood 



