. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. lU THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [NoVEMBEH 28. A FIVE-POUND GREENHOUSE. Since we wrote iipou tliis suliject at page bO, wu liavu received so luaiiy inquiries for i'lirlliev details, tliat we have liad no alternative but to trouble our friend J. B., and by the aid of his jien, and by the aid of tlie pencil of liis wife, who is no mean artist, we lay the following before our readers, requesting such of thoui as have sent us queries to glean answers as they travel on :— " I am Sony any of your readers ha^ e fallun into the hands of such livals as the sto
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. lU THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [NoVEMBEH 28. A FIVE-POUND GREENHOUSE. Since we wrote iipou tliis suliject at page bO, wu liavu received so luaiiy inquiries for i'lirlliev details, tliat we have liad no alternative but to trouble our friend J. B., and by the aid of his jien, and by the aid of tlie pencil of liis wife, who is no mean artist, we lay the following before our readers, requesting such of thoui as have sent us queries to glean answers as they travel on :— " I am Sony any of your readers ha^ e fallun into the hands of such livals as the stove makers. They may com- fort themselves with the reflection that the greatest rivahy exists among equals, and then their ditticidty and delay ^^^ll have an end. ^'ery likely there is not a pin to choose be- tween eitlier the vessels or the fuel. The action of the stove I have I know, therefore I approve of it, without condemn- ing the other. " Now, for other queries in order. I was not content with the pan only, because it did not sene the same puiiiose as the oven. The pan being small and shallow, and placed innnediately upon the sto\e, would get \"ery liot in weather which required all the beat the sto\ e could produce; and, therefore, it wiU be perceived I did not use it imtil the sharpest pai't of the winter had passed; and then, with the reduced temperature, it was quite hot enough to strike cut- tings of A"erbenas and Petunias in ten or twelve days, to pot off and prepare for bedding otit. My oven being much lower in temperature, woidd not have accomplished this, but neither woidd the pan have suited my seeds ; in the pan, the seedlings woidd have spmdled up in a few days, weakly plants at the best, and every one must have been potted and preserved; whereas, coming up gently in the oven (which was more than a yard one way, and neai'ly as much the other), my seeds came uj) sturdy fellows in rows four inches apart. I had two dozen ditferent kinds of seed i
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