CHAPTER II 



Growing Under Glass 



The best kind of house — The other kind — Makeshift! — 

 Utilizing houses used for growing other plants — Arrangement 

 of houses for growing specimen cut blooms for exhibition or 

 market — For specimen bush plants, market plants, and for 

 general decorative purposes — Storage room 



When chrysanthemums are to be grown 

 in considerable quantities, and with the 

 expectation of producing the best grades of 

 blooms, whether for pleasure or profit, 

 there is but one really satisfactory way to 

 do it, and that is 'in a suitable greenhouse. 

 While simple and inexpensive methods of 

 construction will be described to enable 

 many people of modest desires to produce 

 good blooms and enjoy them, a well-con- 

 structed greenhouse is necessary for flowers 

 of the highest quality. 



construction of the houses 



Greenhouse construction has reached a 

 very high state of development at the 

 present time. Architecture, material, and 

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