Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . FIG. 107. FORCING HOUSE (SecHon). thirty-seven feet, also curvilinear; a span roof green-house twenty by sixty-seven feet; a forcing house, witha three-quarter span roof, eighteen by sixty-seven FIG. 108. ROSE HOUSE (Section). Fig. 107; an even s])an orchid house, Fig. 96, eighteenby forty-five feet; a three-quarter span rose house. , twenty by ninety-seven feet; a cool vinery, Fig. 99,twenty-two by sixty feet,
Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . FIG. 107. FORCING HOUSE (SecHon). thirty-seven feet, also curvilinear; a span roof green-house twenty by sixty-seven feet; a forcing house, witha three-quarter span roof, eighteen by sixty-seven FIG. 108. ROSE HOUSE (Section). Fig. 107; an even s])an orchid house, Fig. 96, eighteenby forty-five feet; a three-quarter span rose house. , twenty by ninety-seven feet; a cool vinery, Fig. 99,twenty-two by sixty feet, and a hot vinery, both cuiti- GLASS STRUCTUKES FOR AMATEURS. 195 linear, twenty-two by fifty-two feet, besides a pottingroom and office. This establishment is very complete, and seems tobe well arranged. If plain curvilinear houses are de-sired, the forms shown here have been thoroughly tested,and have been found quite satisfactory. CHAPTER XXIX. GLASS STRUCTURES FOR AMATEURS. Many lovers of gardening, who are restrained fromindulging in their favorite pastime by our loug sixmonths of winter, would gladly erect small glass struc-tures in which to prosecute many of the lighter opera-tions of gardening, but are deterred by what they imag-ine to be the excessive cost. In this chapter an attemptwill be made to outline methods of constructing severalforms of small gr
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