. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. is fifty feet long by sixteen feet wide, contains 370 superficial feet of bark-pit for pine-plants; 1400 superficial feet for training vines; and space for 500 pots of straw- berries or French beans; quantities greater in proportion to the glass roof, th
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. is fifty feet long by sixteen feet wide, contains 370 superficial feet of bark-pit for pine-plants; 1400 superficial feet for training vines; and space for 500 pots of straw- berries or French beans; quantities greater in proportion to the glass roof, than have hitherto been obtained in any hot-house of the common form and similar dimensions. This structure is entered by lobbies at each end (Jig. 439. l), which communicate with a back passage, having a glass roof and trellis for vines (2) this passage, and also in the front of the house, are glazed ventilators open- ing outwards (Jig- 440. 3), through which the vines (5) are introduced and withdrawn at pleasure. The pine-pits (7) are raised so as to be as near the glass as is desirable, by vaulting them beneath (6); against the front of these pits, shoots of vines are brought down from the roof, and trained (9), and pots are placed over the front flue (8). The vines, close under the roof, are trained <*M,3s8Bi^^ on moveable trellis-rods, composed of a centre and two side wires, and placed five feet apart; these rods are hinged to the front props, and supported in the middle of the roof, and at top, by chains and hooks, and in this way can be raised or lowered at pleasure. This house, since its erection, in 1817, has given the greatest satisfaction, and already pro- duces considerable crops of grapes. 2655. The pine-pit of Scott (Jig. 441.) will fruit 120 plants, with three or four chaldrons of coals. The bed for the plants is fifty feet long, and seven feet six inches wide; its peculiarities are that there is only a flue in front (Jig- 441. a.), which returns on itself, an
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