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ends and doors from the promenade. A wide gutter separates 

 the roof of one house from that of its fellow — forming a 

 passage along which men can freely move to arrange shading, 

 ventilation, or repairs. It will be seen at a glance that easy 

 communication between all parts of the range is secured, 

 that the plants just rooted in the propagating house have 

 merely to be carried across the passage to the house devoted 

 to their further de- 

 velopment. The plan 

 is capable of adap- 

 tation in various ways, 

 to houses either large 

 or small. 



One of the houses in 

 the block just referred 

 to is the largest and 

 most perfect propagat- 

 ing house I have ever 

 seen — being more than 

 eighty feet long and 

 twenty-four feet wide. 

 From this house im- 

 mense quantities of 

 plants are turned out 

 in the course of a year, 

 many of them being 

 large-leaved Ficuses and 

 plants that are difficult 

 to strike, as well as Be- 

 gonias, bedding and 

 free - rooting plants. 

 It contains three cen- 

 tral and two side beds ; 

 the central pits are 

 well elevated, and every 

 space is in active work, 

 the whole presenting a 

 most imposing array of 

 large bell-glasses. 



