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stove, and are now using; all the available not had this timber lying about, we should 
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North Side 
A Small Homemade Greenhouse 
As we recently put up a small, inex¬ 
pensive greenhouse, a little more satisfac¬ 
tory than three or four others that we 
used, I am giving a brief description, as 
there are many who could use a similar 
structure at this season, with profit and 
pleasure, who are not in position to make 
use of a larger steam or hot-water heated 
greenhouse. We had to put this up on 
rented ground, and did not. wish to go to 
much expense, but as we failed to get a 
larger greenhouse ou our own ground 
completed in time, we hastily put this 
up to get a lot of flower plants in before 
freezing, and to root our geranium cut¬ 
tings. Also we wanted it here in the 
house, and gradually rises till it reaches 
the chimney ,■ some more stovepipe fas¬ 
tened to the flue and set upright in a con¬ 
crete base. Our purpose in using the 
stovepipe as a flue considerable of the 
way near the stove was because we could 
more easily take it down and clean out 
the soot, which will lie necessary once or 
twice a year. When all is cold, on first 
starting the fire, there is a little trouble 
with the stove smoking, but when the 
flues get warmed up some the draft is 
good. The drawing shows the arrange¬ 
ment of the benches and the location of 
the stove and flue under them in dotted 
lines. 
The location we chose in this case tvas 
Hide View of a Greenhouse 
Spring to grow our early plants for set¬ 
ting out in the field to grow our market 
garden crops. 
At this writing. January 23, we have 
about 3,000 geranium and pelargonium 
cuttings potted in 2-in. to 3-in. pots, near¬ 
ly ready for 4-iu.; about 1.000 Vincas 
potted in 3-in. and 4-in., besides a miscel¬ 
laneous lot of other stock; Wandering 
Jew. ivy. Fuchsias, Begonias, ferns, etc. 
We have shifted this stock hack from the 
a ferrace, running east and west, and a 
sunny southern exposure. The picture 
shows an end view, and almost explains 
the construction of the house. On the 
top of the terrace we used a large timber, 
discarded from an old barn. IV this 
on a bevel to give the correct pitch we 
wanted on the north side, and fastened 
the lower end of the sash to this timber, 
or, rather, onto a smooth board, and the 
board nailed onto the timber. If we had 
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space right, over the stove to start our 
flower seeds, such as Coleus, Petunias. 
Salvias, Begouias and others; also a lot 
of Grand Rapids lettuce. 
Excepting the lettuce plants, which we 
will use in cold frames later, when we 
have good-sized plants to set our. the 
other plants are all to be removed into 
another house where we can give them 
room to grow into marketable plants, and 
this space used for growing our own 
have gone to the woods and got a straight f* If 
log and hewed one side to a straight line, ft Comfort llOUSe SllDDCr 
We gave the north side a little more *" r 
.... , , . , Heal comfort for all. Extra heavy, 
pitch than the south side. A row of fleeeeliued. warm and durable. All sizes,25cpr.(eohi) 
posts with 2x4 scantling nailed to the P° st t mid - statesize. van brocnlen * son. Am»i«rd»ra, n. t. 
top made the top support, to which the — 
sash was fastened, and a 3-in. board 
nailed, at the bevel wanted, to this 2x4, 
made the support for the top of the south 
tier of sash, of which there are three 
rows. Another row of posts with a 2x4 
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plants to use ou the place. I have only 
given the above to show what can be done 
with a house of this kind, even in mid¬ 
winter. We have had zero weather the 
last three or four nights, aud I had no 
difficulty in keeping it reasonably warm, 
only getting up once or twice in the night 
to lire up, and liuding it warmer there on 
getting up in the morning than in the 
house. 
We are heating this with an old “box” 
stove, burning chunks of wood, hut we 
took out the back eud of the stove and 
added a concrete extension, so we can use 
long sticks. With this stove at the low¬ 
est point, we use stovepipe for a consid¬ 
erable distance as a flue, then had this 
enter some damaged sewer pipe, concret¬ 
ed together; also used a 20-ft. length of 
7-in. gas pipe that was discarded for other 
use. The flue extends nearly around the 
nailed to the top, makes the support 
where the two sash lap, so as to shed 
water. A short wall is ou the south side, 
according to the lay of the ground, with 
the sash fastened to this south wall and 
fastened at the top. The others are fas¬ 
tened securely, and some old boards, lined 
inside with paper cartons or other pa¬ 
pers, close up the ends securely, and with 
the odds and ends of boards gathered up 
around the premises we made the benches, 
using stones and short sticks of wood for 
supports. 
Aside from our time we spent less than 
$5, using 39 standard 3x6 hotbed sash, 
which are removable, and we take them off 
in the Summer. When danger from ex¬ 
treme cold is over we may extend the 
length. We just happened to stop at the 
length of 13 sash, or 39 ft. c. w. 
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