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HOUSE & GARDEN 
Dodson 
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Hear the Message of the Birds : — - 
"We’ll live near you and make life cheerier; 
we'll fight the insects on your plants and trees; 
we’ll be friends." 
Some of our most useful native birds stay 
north all winter, if provided with shelter and 
food. 
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learn how to win and keep song birds as your 
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There are 20 Dodson Bird Houses, Feeding 
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Chicago. 
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folder showing bird in natural colors. 
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SS Hi 707 Security Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 
Mr. Dodson is a Director of the 
= Illinois Audubon Society 
Dodson 
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Play House 
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On Warm Days when the 
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Room is most appreciated— 
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Conservatories for the Modern Home 
(Continued from page 60) 
ments in domestic greenhouse archi¬ 
tecture to builders who have hitherto 
only considered greenhouses from a 
commercial standpoint. There are 
some lovely old - world looking 
shrines, created in modern cement, 
where statues may be glimpsed 
through masses of tropic growth, 
over-arched by fringes of vines and 
bright blossoms beneath a roof of 
glass. And there are picturesque 
adaptations of stucco and shingle to 
wall effects and foundations in green¬ 
houses that are welded to dwellings. 
Lean-tos, both on the conservatory 
and practical greenhouse plan, appeal 
strongly to persons who wish to make 
the greenhouse part of their resi¬ 
dences and minimize the expense of 
running it. A complete one, nearly T 
long, with one bench, costs $450. A 
lean-to with two benches, a central 
walk and 9' 4" in length, costs $600. 
These may, of course, be put up more 
cheaply if one wants to take risks of 
freezing or injuring plants, and, when 
flowers are to be grown for market, 
perfect conditions should prevail. 
It is a common saying among horti¬ 
culturists that the cost of erecting, 
heating and caring for a greenhouse 
and its plants averages 50 cents for 
every square foot of glass. 
Some persons attempt a home-made 
house with hotbed sash roof and an 
earth floor, and often have sad re¬ 
sults, such as freezing plants and im¬ 
pairing their vigor and the quality of 
blossoms. In such a case persons 
must reckon the cost of greenhouse 
construction upon the following 
basis: 
Lumber, about $4 per linear foot. 
Greenhouse glass, per box of 50 sq. 
ft., “A” quality, double thick, $4.85. 
Carpentering and labor, $2.50 to $4. 
Lead pipe, common (not used by 
best builders), 5c. to 9c. a pound. 
Extra good lead pipe, of 1" diame¬ 
ter, about 20c. per ft. 
Extra good lead pipe, of 2" diame¬ 
ter, about 30c. a ft. 
Cast iron pipe, 3 l / 2 ", 25c. per ft., 9' 
length. 
Galvanized iron piping, 1" size, 
now, if obtainable, 25c. a ft. 
Galvanized iron piping, 2" size, 
over 25c. a ft. 
Two-inch (black) steel pipe, 8c. to 
10c. per ft. 
Lead pipe usually comes in a long 
continuous roll, while iron is sold in 
sections of about 18' in length, and is 
usually preferred to lead because so 
easily fitted together. 
Where a greenhouse is considered 
apart from a conservatory, the even- 
span is considered the best type of 
house. This has a roof in the form 
of an inverted V, so as to be exposed 
as much as possible to sunlight, and 
its ridgepole is in the center. 
It will be found that in addition to 
all the parts and equipments that be¬ 
long to a greenhouse are many neces¬ 
sities that increase its cost, such as 
prepared earth and fertilizer in bins; 
4" deep boxes for grown plants, shal¬ 
low propagating boxes; 1", 3" and 4 " 
pots; trowel, fork, a rose-spray, 
watering-pots, vessel to wash pots in, 
lime and sulphur for disinfecting; 
Bordeaux mixture, to kill insects; 
boxes, paper, string, knife and scis¬ 
sors for packing; broken flower pots 
or brick or clinkers to lay in the bot¬ 
tom of pots and boxes; tray for car¬ 
rying plants and flowers; wire and 
string for supports. 
Where economy is an object one 
looks out for necessities only. 
Persons who intend to do their own 
building and use hotbed sash for 
roofs, can get the sash as follows: 
Sash, 3' x 6' ft., glazed, painted and 
complete, $3.50; with finished edges, 
unglazed and unpainted, about $1.25. 
Foundations of any material cost a 
good deal in the erection of buildings. 
It is possible to do without a founda¬ 
tion by obtaining a greenhouse frame 
anchored to cast iron foot pieces that 
are set in the ground to a depth of 
2 l / 2 ' and hold the superstructure im¬ 
movable. Even the most ignorant 
amateur realizes that heat, in a green¬ 
house, must be evenly distributed and 
maintained at a certain average tem¬ 
perature. This must be regulated by 
the nature of the house. Roses de¬ 
mand more heat than carnations, and 
for general plants 60° is a fair aver¬ 
age, and all can stand the increase to 
70° brought about by hot sunshine. 
They could not as well stand so high 
an artificial heat. 
No amateur who works among his 
own flowers is enthusiast enough to 
get up at all hours of the night and 
mind the furnace, and this becomes 
obligatory upon whomsoever would 
use steam heat. There are, however, 
some small greenhouse conservatories 
where profit and perfection are not 
insisted upon, that manage to exist 
on radiator heat; part of the system 
of adjoining living-rooms. 
All practical growers of flowers 
agree that steam heat is neither de¬ 
sirable nor economical except in large 
ranges of greenhouses, while hot- 
water systems have been found to 
provide ideal conditions. Such a sys¬ 
tem costs one-fourth more in the in¬ 
stallation, but it requires little atten¬ 
tion, furnishes an equable tempera¬ 
ture, and is easily controlled. Pipes 
for hot water are usually of cast iron 
with an outside measurement of 4". 
One big pipe is capable of heating 
thirty or forty greenhouses. 
In small houses and lean-tos, pipes 
may be connected with the heating 
system used for the dwelling, but this 
plan has generally proved a failure 
because the low temperature in a resi¬ 
dence at night makes it impossible to 
maintain in a glass-roofed house, 
among plants, a temperature 10 ° 
lower than they are given in the day¬ 
time, when the sun helps to furnish 
warmth. On the other hand, if the 
house is connected by pipes with or 
built against the residence, a separate 
boiler may be placed in the cellar of 
the latter, convenient to the coal bin. 
The greenhouse or conservatory 
boiler must be set in a cellar or pit in 
order to be below the level of the 
pipes that run beneath plant benches. 
Some persons have managed to 
warm an 18' x 30' house with five or 
six tons of coal, while others require 
more, either because the house is 
more exposed, the boiler different, or 
the fire-tender wasteful with coal. 
Florists have tried twelve substi¬ 
tutes for coal as a fuel and found 
none as good. One pound of coal will 
evaporate seven pounds of water at 
212° Fahrenheit. Next to coal, crude 
oil has proved the best fuel. Oil heat¬ 
ers have been successfully operated 
in small houses for an inside water 
circulation, when all the products of 
combustion are carried off by means 
of a flue. 
Coal or gas stoves cannot be used 
inside a conservatory because both 
coal gas and illuminating gas are 
deadly poisons to plants. 
A first-class furnace and boiler for 
a small conservatory-greenhouse costs 
about $200. Cheaper ones are not apt 
to prove satisfactory. The cost of 
pipes depends upon the number of 
