. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. JULY: FOURTH WEEK i8S pipe. The uprights should be an inch and a half, the string- ers an inch and a quarter and the crosspieces one-inch pipe; although a size smaller in each case would stand up for all ordinary purposes. The uprights should be sup- ported on flat stones or bricks, or set in concrete. Second- hand gas or water pipe can often be bought very cheap. The fittings may be obtained from a greenhouse-supply company, and the o
. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. JULY: FOURTH WEEK i8S pipe. The uprights should be an inch and a half, the string- ers an inch and a quarter and the crosspieces one-inch pipe; although a size smaller in each case would stand up for all ordinary purposes. The uprights should be sup- ported on flat stones or bricks, or set in concrete. Second- hand gas or water pipe can often be bought very cheap. The fittings may be obtained from a greenhouse-supply company, and the only tools necessary to set up the per- gola, if the pipe has been cut the proper lengths, will be a couple of monkey wrenches. If a support for grapes or roses is wanted a pergola of this kind will be found neat, cheap, durable and strong. SUMMER HOUSE. A Simple Inexpensive Summer House Desirable as a pergola is, a small summer house will probably give more satisfaction and comfort for the money. A simple form of such a house is shown in illustration Plate 15. The floor is of planed boards, matched, supported on two- by-four-inch stringers; the roof is of rough square-edged boards, covered with a good grade of roofing paper. If preferred, shingles may be used. The roof in this case is supported by round unsawed posts of chestnut, although cedar or cypress could be substituted to advantage. The posts are set firmly into the ground six feet apart in a twelve- foot circle. Six two-by-four-inch stringers to sup- port the floor are spaced two feet apart and the flooring is run at right angles to floorTun them. Six two-by-four-inch stringers sup- port the roof, which pitches three feet from center to eaves. To make the roof sufiiciently stiff furring strips of one-by-two-inch stuff are put between the rafters. On one side two uprights form a door frame. Slabs are. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabilit
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