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THE G A R DEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1913 



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This is a KING IRON 

 FRAME GREENHOUSE 



as practical as it is inexpensive. 

 Built for people who want to grow 

 flowers and vegetables in winter and 

 yet do not care to invest in one of 

 our large houses. 



This little house is built along the 



same lines as the KING houses that 



are so popular with commercial growers. Every bit of space can be utilized. 



The two compartments can be run at different temperatures, and the combination 



service and boiler house is a triumph in Greenhouse arrangement. 



We recommend this house as practical, profitable, economical and a 

 source of great pleasure to every lover of growing things. 



King Channel Bar Greenhouses 



Have unique features which should be studied by every prospective builder of a 

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 style which makes them an ornament anywhere. 



Write for prices on this little house and ask us to send 

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Heating a Little Glass House 



I AM getting too old to worry over a hotbed in 

 spring, but I did want a place in which to start 

 seeds for my cold frames. My office is in an inde- 

 pendent building east of my dwelling and con- 

 nected with it by a terrace porch. It is 10 x 16 

 feet, with a door in each end. There is a cellar 

 under it, and the brick work comes up three feet 

 above ground. I determined to put up a green- 

 house on the sunny east end so that I could walk 

 into it directly from my desk. To bring it on a 

 level with the office I had to build a brick wall 

 three feet high. 



The whole greenhouse structure is 6 x 10 ft. 

 The roof is a lean-to against the office wall, and 

 made of three hotbed sash. On the east side, 

 above the brick work, I put in another sash side- 

 wise, and still another on the south end. These 

 sash are hinged at the bottom to open out wide 

 for ventilation. A floor two feet wide, extends 

 along outside the office door, and the bench is four 

 feet wide and extends around each side of the door 

 to the wall of the office. One side being used as a 

 potting table, and the other for some tall plants. 

 Making the bench three feet above the floor gives 

 me six feet under it, and as the sash on the side 

 and end extend below the bench, there is some sun- 

 light under the bench. I have there a bed planted 

 with the everblooming begonias simply to have 

 something green and blooming. 



The heating of this little structure was at first 

 a puzzle. As I have an open fire place in the office 

 and an extra flue from the cellar, I at first thought 

 of putting a stove down there and running a flue 

 around the house. But happening to look over a 

 hardware catalogue I saw in it what they called 

 a tank heater, a little cylindrical hot water 

 boiler to heat tank for baths. I argued that 

 if the thing would heat a tank it would heat pipe 

 radiation. I bought it, with the necessary piping, 

 and expansion tank, all for $30.95. Then I placed 

 the little boiler in the cellar, and took the flow 

 pipe straight up through the floor of the office, and 

 alongthe wall toan openexpansiontank in thecorner 

 of the office. I made this the highest point in the 

 system, and from there the piping all runs down 

 grade through a coil of eight pipes, nine feet long, 

 hung on the brick work under the bench, and thence 

 back to the boiler. This hot water system cost 

 $16.00 to install. I seldom have a fire in my office 

 fireplace as in mild weather with the greenhouse 

 door open, I get heat enough. The economy of the 

 heating has been wonderful; in average weather I 

 make up the fire in the evening, get the piping hot, 

 fill up the stove at bed time and close the draft, and 

 it holds the heat well till morning. One hodful 

 of coal does the business. In cold days I use a little 

 more to keep the fire going, but the average coal 

 consumption is not much over a hod a day. The 

 main difficulty I have, except in extra cold nights, 

 is to keep the little house from getting too warm. I 

 want a temperature of 60 at night, but with the 

 piping hot and the office door shut, it will soon run 

 up to 70. 



Now for the results. I get all the seedling plants, 

 both of vegetables and flowers that I need. Last 

 spring I raised my tomato and eggplant for the 

 frames, and grew a great amount of seedling coleus, 

 begonias and Japanese chrysanthemums, far more 

 than I had room to pot. Then when these were 

 out I started tuberous begonias and gloxinias, and 

 had a wonderful display all summer. I dried off 

 these, and filled up for the winter with begonias 

 of the ever-blooming sorts, Asparagus plumosus, 

 and other things for cutting. Some of the asparagus 

 is planted under the bench. I shall have room in 

 the spring to start some tomatoes, etc., in flats for 

 transplanting to the coldframes, and in boxes of 

 sand I root cuttings of geraniums, etc., to pot off 

 for spring bedding. I should also have stated that 

 I started last spring a fine lot of dahlias and chry- 

 santhemums from seed. A few of the extra good 

 seedling dahlias I will keep inside for spring prop- 

 agation. 



The little greenhouse cost altogether, with heating 

 apparatus installed, about an even $100.00 and 

 it beats a hotbed a long way both as to effective- 

 ness and convenience. 



Maryland. W. F. Massey. 



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