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chard where the snow drifts high, in order to reach his fires which 
must be carefully tended. 
When you have selected a spot get-at-able and inconspicuous, 
be sure that it is quite open to the sun and free from shadows of 
any sort. This will mean, of course, that adjacent trees and 
buildings must be to the north and west, not either south or east. 
Abundant direct sunshine is a prime requisite. 
Finally, what are you planning to grow? Is your green- 
house designed for general utility or have you some individual 
fancy to house therein? If fruit be your preference — and the 
prospect of Melons, Grapes, Peaches, and Nectarines hanging 
dead-ripe from one’s own trellises in February is a bit exciting— 
remember that each of these demands special treatment. Grapes 
and Melons, for instance, thrive best grown close to the glass 
on wire trellises conforming to the shape of the roof so that the 
greenhouse designed for these should run north and south, 
otherwise the side getting the sun, which swings very low during 
the winter months, will shade the other side. On the con- 
trary, a greenhouse for Peaches and Nectarines should be 
placed east and west, for these fruits are usually grown on trelli- 
ses set across the greenhouse. The sun, by this arrangement, 
will reach between the trees and each will receive its full share 
of light. 
A properly placed greenhouse then must in some measure 
conform to the four suggested fundamentals: harmony in its 
relationship with the whole, accessibility, freedom from shadows, 
and material to be grown. These things decided, any amount 
of minor variation may obtain to please the individual planner. 
Your greenhouse may be tucked away at the end of a garden 
path delightfully come upon as a surprise; it may perhaps serve 
as a boundary to the walled garden, or divide the formal gar- 
den from its humbler kitchen neighbor. It may stand beyond 
the garage or even close against it, so that both may be heated 
from the same source, though this is not always an ideal arrange- 
ment, for upon a properly located heating plant of sufficient 
size to be effective, obviously much depends. When the 
greenhouse is on the elaborate scale of a “range of glass” there 
will of necessity be a central heating plant serving all the 
different houses which will be arranged about it with regard to 
the varying requirements and destined uses of the units, and 
that is a subject for the greenhouse architect to plan. It 
requires skill and knowledge. But when the single greenhouse 
(in one or more sections) is to be erected the heating plant 
had best be part and parcel. The north end offers all the 
advantages in not excluding any valuable light, and also in 
serving as a shelter on the worst exposure. And this pleasure 
of placing is only the first of a series of pleasures the green- 
house affords! 
UNITED BY SIMILARITY OF ANGLES 
Here a pleasing union with other garden features is brought about 
by paralleling and extending the greenhouse structural lines with 
those of the pool margin and connecting walks, all at right angles. 
ALL RIGHT IN SUMMER 
When the winter comes the 
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tenance. Except for winter 
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