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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



tile as shown at D, figure 31. In sections where fuel is high 

 priced the beds might he partially heated with manure. 



Figure 33 sho^s a cross section of a lean-to house that is 

 easily adapted to most locations, but especially suited to side- 

 hills. It is tv/enty feet wide and may be made of any length 

 desired. It should have a boiler room on one end or at the back 

 side as is most convenient. It should, of course, extend east 

 and west so that the slope will be entirely to the south or south- 

 east. The walls are made of cedar posts tightly boarded up on 

 both sides. The alleys are two feet wide and planked ovi each 

 side. The roof is shown made of permanent sash bars but these 



Fig-ure 33. — Cross section of lean-to greenLouse. 



might be made of movable sash as recommended for the model 

 forcing pit. One ventilator is at the top of the roof and another 

 is in the side wall. Two purlins extending the length of the 

 house are supported by small gas pipe posts. The northerly 

 bench is four feet wide, raised three feet above the alley and 

 is filled with six inches of soil or it may be used for seed boxes. 

 The center bench is eight feet wide and may be solid or raised. 

 The southerly bench is shown filled with stable manure and is 

 practically a hotbed. The same treatment may also be given 

 the center bench. But where the plan is followed of making up 

 a part of the benches with manure, it is well to have some or all 

 of the roof glazed with movable sash, to facilitate th© work ol 



