. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same. Greenhouses. STAGING, BEDS, ETC. 93 are usually made somewhat lower than the latter. Ash- beds for large or tall plants frequently do not exceed 18in. or so in height, but stages should be higher, 2^ft. being about right. In lofty houses very high stages are occasionally
. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same. Greenhouses. STAGING, BEDS, ETC. 93 are usually made somewhat lower than the latter. Ash- beds for large or tall plants frequently do not exceed 18in. or so in height, but stages should be higher, 2^ft. being about right. In lofty houses very high stages are occasionally employed, in order to bring the plants up nearer the glass, but anything over 3ft. in height is exceedingly awkward, and even this height is rather inconvenient for any but a very tall man to work at. It may be mentioned, in passing, that when mounds, or a ridge, of soil have to be put dovwi on an ordinary wood. or other staging, according to a common practice in the culture of cucumbers and tomatoes, some ordinary or roofing slates ought to be laid down first; even where the staging is surfaced with iron this had better be done, as the roots dishke contact with this or any metal, while slate is very agreeable to them. Such ridges or mounds of soil may be kept in place by means of a few loose bricks. Kg. 68 shows the section of a very well-arranged and useful structure for the culture of specimen or large plants. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ravenscroft, B. C. London, L. U. Gill; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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