Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . 2 are woodenventilators at back and front, hung by pivots in the diagonal pieces of wood supporting the shelves are asfar apart as such supports for stages generally are, so thatthere is ample room for getting at these seven shelveseasily Irom the inside of the house. It will be observed thataU these shelves are at an equal distance from the glass, andthat the slope of the glass is such as to give the greatest amount of the direct rays of the sun to the plants beneathit during the early months of the year, when forced
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . 2 are woodenventilators at back and front, hung by pivots in the diagonal pieces of wood supporting the shelves are asfar apart as such supports for stages generally are, so thatthere is ample room for getting at these seven shelveseasily Irom the inside of the house. It will be observed thataU these shelves are at an equal distance from the glass, andthat the slope of the glass is such as to give the greatest amount of the direct rays of the sun to the plants beneathit during the early months of the year, when forced Straw-berries are most in demand. We could well believe thestatement of the wonderful crops obtained in this house,and from such plants in pots as we noticed ripening theircrowns. We have seen no other house so suitable for theobject, and can well imagine it would be free from the annoy-ances and insects that are apt to seize on the Strawberrywhen the plants are crowded into any and every open spacein any house where there is heat. All who have the am- Ground. Liae. Fie- 2.
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