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Flue for Small Greenhouse 
I have thought this past year of builri- 
ing a furnace-heated greenhouse or hot¬ 
bed, 20 feet long, reserving five feet for a 
workroom and fuel, leaving 15 feet for 
the house proper. I have thought of 
heating this by means of a furnace on 
one side; the furnace being two or 2^ 
feet long, the flue from the furnace to be 
8-inch drain tile, running down one side, 
1,5 feet; thence across the end, and back 
the other side to the fuel or workroom, 
where the smoke pipe would pass upwards 
into the air. The flue will be about 35 
feet long. Will this’ plan give satisfac¬ 
tion and give plenty of heat at all timos? 
The furnace would be built of brick. The 
walk would be in the center of the house 
and the beds each side and across one 
end, th(‘ flue running underneath the beds. 
If iKiss.ible I would use this house all the 
year through. M. J. S. 
Denver, Col. 
The length of flue proposed would be 
much in excess of the requirements for a 
house of this size. The radiation from 
a flue of that size and length would be so 
great that it would be next to impossible 
to keej) the temperature low enough. You 
will require but a single line of flue, and 
that should be run under the bench on 
the side of the house exposed to the pre¬ 
vailing cold winds of Winter, and thvough 
the wall into the smoke-pipe or chimney 
directly under the gable at the opposite 
end from the furnace. Your furnace 
should not be over 20 or 24 inches long, 
14 inches wide and 10 inches high over 
the grate bars. Use fireproof brick in its 
construction, and arch the top over with 
brick. Excavate a pit deep enough, so 
that when the furnace is finished the top 
will be about even with the top of the 
ground. On account of terra-cotta tile 
cracking under high temperature, it is 
not safe to use them in closer proximity 
to the flue than 15 to 18 feet. For that 
reason bricks are always used to that dis¬ 
tance away from the furnace. Therefore 
you will have to use brick the entire 
h'ngth, except at the point where the 
Hue enters the smokestack, where a joint 
of pipe may be used, taking due precau¬ 
tion not to get it too near the wood¬ 
work. A six-inch flue yvill be large 
enough, and should have a gradual in¬ 
cline of six inches or so from the furnace 
to smokestack. If fireproof flat tile can¬ 
not be conveniently procured for the top 
of the flue, then brick should be used, and 
be sure they are made gas-tight, as a very 
small leakage in the hou.se will soon be 
fatal to all the plants it contains. K. 
Home Propagation of Shrubs 
I have about .300 feet of border to plant 
and I want a background of shrubbery 
clear around. I have only a few dollars 
to spend on it, but wish to make a be¬ 
ginning this Spring. Would it be pos¬ 
sible, practical, to buy a few specimens as 
a beginning and proiiagate new ones my¬ 
self, from these? These are some I have 
thought of trying: Spiriiea Van Houttei, 
Hydrangea paniculata granditlora. Rosa 
nigosa, common barberry, dwarf barber'W 
(.lapanese), purple lilac, white lilac, 
sweet syi'inga. bridal wreath. K. H. 
Port Ryron. N. Y. 
Without experience and facilities for 
doing the work, you would hardly be suc¬ 
cessful in the propagating of such shrubs 
ns named in the list. The Spirams and 
Hydrangeas are" mostly propagated from 
green wood under glass in Summer. The 
barberries and Rugosa I’ose are most 
commonly propagated from seeds, though 
all may be propagated from mature and 
green wood under glass. Lilac, new kinds 
and stocks of the common one, are grown 
from seed. They may also be proi)agated 
from hard and soft wood cuttings under 
very favorable conditions. I'he common 
sorts are easily propagated from root 
suckers, while the named sorts are largely 
propagated by grafting on common stocks 
and privet. Philadelphus (commonly 
known as syringa) is increas(‘d by suck¬ 
ers, division and hard and .soft cuttings 
under gla.ss. To be successful in the 
propagation of these vuirious shrubs re¬ 
quires expert knov/ledge together with 
proper facilities for doing the work. 
Otherwise one will not make much head¬ 
way. Your best plan would be to pur¬ 
chase small one-year-old stocks of such 
kinds as you require from some reliable 
nursery. These would cost but a trifle 
as compared with the cost of the sizes 
usually planted, K. 
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