Archive image from page 63 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer06bail Year: 1906 1728 STORAGE STORAGE 'The fruit house is built on high and dry ground. The cellar was three feet, and dirt taken from this was used to bank up around the wall. The wall is
Archive image from page 63 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer06bail Year: 1906 1728 STORAGE STORAGE 'The fruit house is built on high and dry ground. The cellar was three feet, and dirt taken from this was used to bank up around the wall. The wall is solid stone and mortar, is 5 feet high, VA feet wide at the bottom, and 2 feet at the top; 2-inch plank for sills on this, bedded in mortar, doubled so as to break joints; 2 by 4 studding above this; outside of studding matched pine, then paper, and then clapboards, painted; in middle of studding, lath and plaster; inside of studding, matched pine, then paper, and then '..-inch sheathing, painted. This gives two hollow walls, or dead-air spaces. For ventilating, there is one ventilator from cel- lar to the observatory on top of building, which has four large window frames, with blinds, but no tight windows. The ventilator opens into both storage rooms. We have three 18-inch windows on east and west sides of building in the cellar, and three large windows in west side, next to storeroom. Both floors are double, with paper between, and the second room is ceiled over- head with matched spruce, and painted. The two win- dows on east side show in cut, with the outside doors.' The following sketch of a home storage plant is re- printed from Bull. 74, W. Va. Experiment Station, by k;' WM>mjt;;;&. 2405. Grape storehouse, with packing-rooms on first floo L. C. Corbett: ' In localities where field stone are plentiful, a satisfactory, durable and moderate - cost house can be built in the form of a bank cellar by using these stone in cement, making a grout wall. Such a wall can be co
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