Vol. XXXIX No 
Whole No. 1587. 
Pbicje Five Cents, 
82.00 Peb Year, 
[Entered according to Act of Couureas. In the year 1 H 80 , by the Rural New-Yorker , in the 
ft many other eases. No other eonld have been tables (a) and i 
adopted without considerably increasing the The narrow wt 
= - - cost ’ an<i ,h ’ 3 was n0t fo he done. The space convenience in 
now occupied by the ground plan (Fig. 218) plants in the In 
was a covered area, built up to the ground gets) can be « 
surface (cQ wit^h a stone wall. This wall was the door, 
repaired and retained, and in order to place the The floor bea 
A CHEAP GREEN-HOUSE 
B. MEAD 
Fob years past, at intervals more 
brief, inquiries have been made, throv 
horticultural press, lor cheap green-____ 
Evidently the meaning has been, for houses 
costing very little mouey, and the inquiries 
have been answered accordingly. The domi¬ 
nant idea, in both the inquiry and the answer, 
has been the primary or first cost, ignoring 
altogether other and more important consider¬ 
ations, without a strict regard to which a truly 
cheap house canuot be built; and that is be¬ 
ginning to be well understood now. even bv 
At c is the pump. This is a Blount Universal 
J orce Pump, which draws water from a cis¬ 
tern outside, and discharges it into a good- 
sizeu tank under the table. The pump is fitted 
with a three-way cock, so that water may be 
drawn from either the cistern or the tank at 
pleasure: this is a great convenience, and es¬ 
pecially beneficial to the plants. 
The section (Fig. 220) shows the arrange¬ 
ment of the rafters (v), purlins, plate (n), 
sill, (I), hot water pipes, (i), and the position 
of the boiler, f, in the laundry room below, 
T his is Weathered’s smallest boiler, and is cap¬ 
able of heating a house three or four times the 
size of this. It is so inclosed with brick-work 
as to form a hot-air chamber around it, and 
the hot air is conveyed to the dining-room, 
which it keeps comfortably warm in the coldest 
of weather. 
The end elevation (Fig. 219) shows the posi¬ 
tions and arrangement of the end sashes, 
door. steps, etc. The front elevation (Fig. 216) 
shows the arrangement of the front upright 
sashes, roof, etc. The rafters and niullions 
temporary protection of plants; but pray, do 
not call them plant houses. Even la such a 
case, however, much better may be done. I 
have made plant houses a specialty for more 
than twenty years, and during alT that time 
have studied to reduce the cost of construction, 
and have invariably found the path of e 
to lie in the direction of good mate 
good workmanship. Without these, 
plant house can no more be built than 
coat can be made out of shoddy. Th 
or body being well built, the ultimate c 
be reduced in the treatment of eave am 
moldings, and the omission of labor-sa 
paratus; but tu the latter case, only 
humau labor is very 
cheap. 
I make the above re¬ 
mains on so-called 
cheap plant houses to 
pave the way for the 
introduction of uu ex¬ 
ample of what I con¬ 
sider a cheap house. 
This particular style of 
house is chosen be- -~ 
cause it meets the g '~~ - 
wants of a class of 
amateur plant growers CJ 
whose claims to con- f, 
sideration have been — 
almost eutirely over- 
looked among ns. I - 
have special reference 
to lady amateurs ; but 
the reference will reach T 
quite as well to many vr- 
amateurs of the other 
gender (a growing 
class, 1 am happy to [ n i ftJS 
say), and to the com- |j I H [Jjf F 
paratively f...w (I am |||! [ |l jjgL _l 
sorry to say) uraong ill '\, |||F 
our clergy who love to U 
devote a portion of ! 
their time to the eul- iy &jp'A-^- 
ture^ of fruits and 
The structure seen ^[Tf 
in the accompanying M-lL 
illustrations, it will be ^ 
observed, is attached Y^^g^S! 
to and forms a part of 
the dwelling. It is 
susceptible of various 
modifications, as will t_‘ '*' '• 
be explained farther ^ 
mined the form of the 
house, 
The outlines of the 
PERSPECTIVE VIEW 
(Costing $630.)— Fig. 217 
