12. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
July 1, 1909 
nea renee 
Rough Plan of a Lean-to House. 
10 x 8, to Cost £3 5s. for Materials, Labor Extra, and Concrete Wall and Brick Extra 
JVARRAM if 
Excavate 2 ft. for footway, 
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 cost looms large in the mind’s eye of 
the lover of pot plants whenover (and it 
is often) the desirableness of erecting a 
glass house presents itself to him. 
Such a house as, the above when put up 
by a tradesman would cost from £10 to 
£15, a sum sufficient to deter even the 
most ardent plant enthusiast, unless he 
is well provided with this world’s goods. 
In the illustration the three jarrah 
weatherboards above the words could be 
secured together at the back and hinged 
WEATHER BOARDS 
using earth ro raise bench 8 ft, Brick up sides and steps. 
to the wall-plate above, and this would 
provide sufficient ventilation : 
The benefit of having a concrete wall is 
that a splendid collection of ferns can be 
grown against it by using 2-inch mesh 
wire netting to hold up a surface of 
sphagnum moss, with peaty soil 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. We have seen a 
collection of fifteen or twenty varieties 
_ thus grown and drooping 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. 
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 to a depth of three or four 
inches be made of a rich compost, in 
which Ferns, Begonias, Primulas, Palms, 
&c., 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 the house being 
nearer the glass would do well for Cycla- 
mens, Primulas, Sheptocarpus, Coleus, 
small Begonias of all sections, &c. 
The rough design above will of course 
need some little facility with tools to 
construct it, but anyone handy with tools 
could readily erect such a house. 
