Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . FiG. 94. STOVE ROOM {Secfion). dom wider than twenty or twenty-five feet, and fromtwelve to twenty feet in height. If built upon a ma-sonry foundation two and a half feet high, the verticalside walls are usually about two and one-half or threefeet high, with side ventilators. The roof lias an angleof thirty to tliirty-five degrees, with ventihifors on eachside of the ridge. Tills house should have sido t;i!.K ?, and ;: wide c
Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . FiG. 94. STOVE ROOM {Secfion). dom wider than twenty or twenty-five feet, and fromtwelve to twenty feet in height. If built upon a ma-sonry foundation two and a half feet high, the verticalside walls are usually about two and one-half or threefeet high, with side ventilators. The roof lias an angleof thirty to tliirty-five degrees, with ventihifors on eachside of the ridge. Tills house should have sido t;i!.K ?, and ;: wide cen-ter table may be used, or, if the plants are large, they STOVi: AXD ORCHID HOUSES. 175. 176 GKEENHOUSE COXSTRUCTIOX, may bo planted or 2)lunged. In Fig. 94 is seen a crosssection of a stove house with a curvilinear roof, while inFig. 95 an interior view of the same house is seen. When one docs not desire the curvilinear roof foritself, a stove room built with straight sash bars willgive fully as good results. A very pleasing effect maybo produced when stove plants and orchids are grown inthe same room. So far as the construction of the houseitself is concerned, a stove house does not differ fromothers of thfe same general style, except that to obtainthe i^roper temjierature, the radiating surface, providedin the steam or water pipes, must be considerably largerthan for most houses. COOL HOUSES. In all establishments of this kind there should be,at least, one house in which a maximum night tempera-ture of fifty degrees is maintained, for such plants asdo not require the stove room heat. In a general way,their construction would be the same as for a stovehouse, although, a
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