hough Plan of a Lean-to House 
Excavato 2 ft, for footway, using earth to rise bench 3 tt. 
The above illustration will commend 
itself to {many of our readers who are 
desirous of putting up a nice convenient 
size glass house cheaply. The question 
of eostlooms large in the mind’s eye of 
the lover of pot plants whenever (and it 
is often ) the desirableness of erecting a 
glass house presents its self to him, 
In the illustration the three jarrah 
weatherboards above the words could be 
secured together at the back and hinged 
to the wallplate above, and this would 
provide sufficient vertilation 
The benefit of having a concrete wall is 
that a splendid collection of ferns can bu 
grown against it by using 2-inch mesh 
wire netting to hold up a surface of 
sphagnum moss, with peaty soll filled in 
at the back. A suitable bed is readily 
provided. By pushing one finger through 
the moss into the peat small ferns can 
be bedded easily. Wehave seen a col- 
lection of fifteen or twenty varieties thus 
grown and dropping gracefully over the 
whole mass, and hiding it. To water this 
either a small spray pump or syringe or 
the hose direct from the tap can be used. 
Brick up sides and steps, 
The bench below it would be best made 
of solid earth. The top soil of the path- 
way could be thrown over the wall, and 
the surface toa depth of three or four 
inches be made of arich co 
which Ferns, Begonias, Primulas, Palms 
etc, would do well, and pots of other 
flowering plants could be placed standing 
directly on the soil or on inverted pots. 
The lower side of tho 
nearer the glass would do well for Cycla- 
mens, Primulas, Sheptocarpus, Coleus, 
small Begonias of all sections, etc. q 
The rough design aboye will of course 
need some little facility with tools to con- 
struct it, but anyone handy with} tools 
could erect such a house, 
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