. Dreer's vegetables under glass : a little handbook telling how to till the soil during twelve months of the year. Vegetables; Cold-frames. CHAPTER VII. A WINTER WORK /t?* H'AGCW Here is a suggestion for a winter work room ; a place for doing all the laborious details of "getting ready for ; It is from one of our 1896 note books, and is an almost exact copy of the " wash room " of John S. Crosby, of Arlington, Massachusetts. Mr. Crosby is entitled to the merit of its simple and convenient details. Everybody in the market gardening business knows the vast amou
. Dreer's vegetables under glass : a little handbook telling how to till the soil during twelve months of the year. Vegetables; Cold-frames. CHAPTER VII. A WINTER WORK /t?* H'AGCW Here is a suggestion for a winter work room ; a place for doing all the laborious details of "getting ready for ; It is from one of our 1896 note books, and is an almost exact copy of the " wash room " of John S. Crosby, of Arlington, Massachusetts. Mr. Crosby is entitled to the merit of its simple and convenient details. Everybody in the market gardening business knows the vast amount of labor involved in washing, bunching and preparing stufiF for market at all seasons of the year, and that this work in winter is often painfully cold and altogether disagreeable. The above work room or '' wash room " is a model of comfort and convenience, and its best feature is its simplicity. It is not expensively built, yet every detail seems perfect. Numerous windows admit light by day, and electricity furnishes illumination by night. The boiler and its pipes keep the place comfortably warm. The floor of the wash room, which is of cement, is raised say two feet above the level of the ground outside the building. Large doors open for the reception of the market wagon, which stands below the level of the wash room floor. The doors close with the wagon on the 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 Dreer, Henry A. Philadelphia : Henry A. Dreer, Incorporated
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