1910. 
Ruralisms 
BUILDING A SMALL GREENHOUSE. 
F. A. T., Union, N. Y .—I wish to build 
a small greenhouse for growing lettuce, 
radishes and small onions for bunching 
during the Winter months till March 1— 
from that date to be used for growing 
tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, pansies, etc., 
for plants for field use. My market will 
not warrant a large outlay for greenhouse 
construction. Hotbeds I am about done with 
and I wish to build a vegetable house 
10 x 25 with one gable attached to a 
shed and cellar- under shed ; side walls of 
greenhouse to be concrete, two feet above 
ground imd two feet below surface. The 
bed to be on the surface, with a sunken 
walk two feet wide through the center 
of the house. My idea is to dig out walk 
about two and one-lialf to three feet deep, 
with concrete side walls to surface of the 
ground, thus making each bed about three 
feet eight inches wide, allowing four inches 
for width of each wall at the top. Building 
to run north and south, shed at north end. 
Is such a building practical, and will it 
give good service? For heating with hot 
water what size pipe should be used and 
how many? Should they be attached to 
side walls or walk walls for best results? 
Furnace to be in the shed cellar. Building 
to be erected on gravel land, therefore 
flooding need not be considered. 
Ans.— In the construction of a small 
greenhouse for general use, if economy 
and efficiency is worth considering, I 
would not advise F. A. T. to build on 
the lines given. It would seem to me 
that the cost of construction would be 
too great for the amount of planting 
space he would have. It is perhaps well 
to understand that a small greenhouse 
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for they will rot out in two or three 
years, when they are exposed to contin¬ 
ual dampness. In the north end of this 
inclosure there should be a cellar or pit 
dug to a suitable size and depth for the 
boiler. The roof should be of even span 
from end to end. The north end, which 
contains the boiler, should be separated 
from the greenhouse department and 
covered with a shingle roof. This should 
be large enough for a work room, and 
will be very convenient for general use. 
The remainder of the roof should be 
spaced for sash bars to allow the use of 
14-inch glass. This will allow the glazier 
to work between the bars and 10x14 inch 
lights to be used. I have found these 
least expensive. Two lines of four-inch 
pipe under each bench, or five lines of 
two-inch under each, will give about 
the same results, with an expansion tank 
in the south end. The cost to complete 
a greenhouse as above described would 
depend on the character of the work. A 
very safe estimate, however, will be from 
$8 to $10 per running foot. If lettuce 
and cucumber, etc., are to be grown, a 
house running from cast to west with a 
three-quarter span facing south usually 
gives the best results. T hese crops suc¬ 
ceed best in solid beds with top heat. 
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Few climbing plants are more satis¬ 
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making a sheet of small white blooms 
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CLEMATIS PANICULATA ON FENCE. Fig. 163 
is more expensive to heat and maintain 
an even temperature than one of large 
or medium size. As he expects to use 
a hot water boiler I am inclined to be¬ 
lieve that the smallest size made by any 
reliable manufacturer will heat a house 
10x40 or 50 feet quite as well as one 
somewhat smaller, say 10x25 feet. Again, 
when plants of various kinds are to be 
grown successfully they should have the 
advantage of raised benches with under 
heating pipes instead of the solid beds, 
where the heating pipes must be hung 
on the side walls of the house. This 
method does not insure good radiation 
in small houses. The writer has built a 
great many grcqnhouses of different 
styles and sizes; a large majority of 
them are in use to-day, and some have 
been built more than 20 years. 1 could 
always find where some useful improve¬ 
ment could have been made on each one 
of them after I began to use them. A 
greenhouse 10 feet wide should not ex¬ 
ceed 50 feet in length, and should be 
easily constructed to give satisfaction, by 
setting, posts of some lasting material 
four feet apart on lines running north 
and south. Between these posts and 
around them the foundation should be 
formed of concrete six or eight inches 
above the surface. The side walls should 
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I ’i feet. Y\ o'vl sills should not h 0 peed. 
with a faint but delicious odor. It 
likes well-draiited loamy soil and a 
sunny situation, but is not at all exact¬ 
ing in its requirements. Garden au¬ 
thorities tell us that it will stand rather 
severe pruning in Winter, but with us, 
in a somewhat exposed situation in the 
latitude- of New York, it is usually 
killed to the ground every Winter, so 
our pruning consists of cutting away 
the dead top in early Spring. It makes 
tremendous growth each year, the Win¬ 
ter freezing causing no visible check. 
So far we have not found C. paniculata 
to be affected with the serious disease 
that so often destroys the large-flowered 
Clematis. It is charming as a screen 
for a sunny porch, to cover an arch, 
or rambling along a fence or over an 
old stump. It endures transplanting 
very well; set it in early Spring pref¬ 
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1 he Brown Grape. —The Brown grape 
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growth. In the Spring of 1908 I cut it 
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grew to the top of a 5^-foot trellis and 
made arms each way two to three feet in 
length. In Spring of 1909 it set 70 or 80 
stems of fruit. I removed all but perhaps 
and then left too manv. They began 
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WESTERN CANADA 
Prof. Shaw, Well-Known Agriculturist, Says: 
*'I would sooner raise cattle in Western Canada 
iu the corn belt of the United States. 
Feed is cheaper and climate better 
for the purpose. Your market will 
improve faster than your fanners 
will produce the supplies. W heat 
can be grown up to tile 60th parallel 
1800 miles north of the International 
boundary]. Your vacant land will 
bo taken at a’ rate beyond present 
conception. We have enough people 
in the United States alone who want 
. homes to take up this laud." Nearly 
70,000 Americans 
will enter and make I heir homes 
lu , Western Canada this year. 
1909 produced another large crop 
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tlon to which the cattle exports 
was au immense item. 
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fTTse address nearest yon.) f6) 
