Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . Fig. 2. VENTILATIiSTG. I HAD a bricked dung-pit 10 feet long, 6 wide, and 3 deep;it was emptied out, and a glazed span-roof put on it; it runseast and west, so that the south side receives most of thesun. There is no upright side glass, but the roof consistsof four sashes, two on the north side and two on the sash can fold back on its neighbovu, and must befolded back for any one to get into the pit, there being noother entrance. When any sash is lifted it affords ventila-tion at the side, at top, and at bottom; whe
Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . Fig. 2. VENTILATIiSTG. I HAD a bricked dung-pit 10 feet long, 6 wide, and 3 deep;it was emptied out, and a glazed span-roof put on it; it runseast and west, so that the south side receives most of thesun. There is no upright side glass, but the roof consistsof four sashes, two on the north side and two on the sash can fold back on its neighbovu, and must befolded back for any one to get into the pit, there being noother entrance. When any sash is lifted it affords ventila-tion at the side, at top, and at bottom; when aU foiu aretilted with a chock of wood it is as if the roof were off, exceptin the centre of each side of the span, where the sashes arehinged to work on. The pit is sunk and unpaved; it isdamp; a number ot Camellias and Azaleas have set their budswell in it. The south side of the span is all rough plate;the two ends are filled in with clear glass. After two oclocksome large trees keep the sun from the pit. Each sash isnow tilted a foot, and the air travels f
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