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SE£D-TfM£ AM© HARVEST, 
How to Construct a Cheap Green 
House. 
Many of our readers have small green¬ 
houses which afford them a great deal of 
pleasure at all times, and more so in winter. 
There are those who deprive themselves of 
the pleasure because they imagine the cost 
of making a green-house as too great. Mr. 
Berckmans, in the following interesting ar 
tide, submits directions for a cheap one. 
Our plan for a house say twenty-five by 
twelve feet, would be to sink the floor two 
or three feet below the level of the soil; this 
has many advantages over houses built en¬ 
tirely out of the ground. The foundation 
walls should be made of brick, or where the 
material is at hand, of concrete. If the lat¬ 
ter is used, dig a trench a foot wide to the 
required depth; line inside with rough 
boards and fill up with stones, gravel and 
mortar. The soil of the inside can be dug 
out afterwards; this will give a solid and 
economical foundation. The roof should be 
what is termed a span roof, as the light is 
better distributed than in lean-to or single 
pitched houses. 
The roof should be formed of portable 
sashes seven feet long by three or three and 
a half feet wide. Every alternate sash is 
screwed fast to the sill and the ridge-pole. 
The others are movable and are elevated by 
an iron bar attached to the sash by a. staple. 
The nar can be hooked upon an iron pin in 
the ridge pole when the sash is o; en for 
ventilation. 
The interior arrangements consist of a 
table of four feet wide on each side, leaving 
a walk in the middle. The ends of the 
house are to be inch plank. A common 
brick flue running on one side of the house 
will answer for all necessary heating ap¬ 
paratus—the flue to be of bricks placed 
edge upon edge. When bottom heat is re¬ 
quired to prpegate plants or for other pur¬ 
poses it is advisable to board up the side of 
the table under which the flue runs, one 
board to be hinged so low as to throw the 
heat all over the house if needed. 
The tables are to be covered with an inch 
of sand upon which the pots are placed, 
and in a house of this description nearly all 
classes of plants can be grown. We do not 
advise, howeve", to keep the temperature 
at a high degree, especially if a miscellane¬ 
ous collection of plants is placed in the 
house, as it would not suit hard-wooded 
and half hardy plants to be f orced in veg¬ 
etation early in the winter, but advise that 
fire will only be made to keep the tempera- 
ture from getting too low in extreme cold 
weather. A simple covering of gunny 
bagging rolled on the outside of the glass, 
will, in ordinary weather, be sufficient to 
keep the temperature at the desired degree 
without fire heat. 
The cost of such a house need not be 
over $150, if constructed in a plain but sub¬ 
stantial manner; where the work is par¬ 
tially performed by the amateur, a less sum 
will cover the cost of building .—Floral In¬ 
structor. 
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