. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. -^ jl,r„- \.0\N GHttUHOViStS. OR P\"^S. StCT\OU^\. M\tVJ OV \.0\N GWttHHOUStS, OR PUS, A. Sash 6x4 feet. B. i'/-inch steam pipe-. C. Cemented Iiciich 45^ feet wide. D. Walk 2 feel vpide and 6}< feet from ridge. E. Yellow pine gutter 10x4 inches. K. Front wall 3'; feet high. G. (iround level. I know that Mr. Henderson sells in large ijuantities, but he would have to have an itnmeuse market and then grow only a few varieties of soft sUifT. As for seedlings the majority of florists could not sell them at any
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. -^ jl,r„- \.0\N GHttUHOViStS. OR P\"^S. StCT\OU^\. M\tVJ OV \.0\N GWttHHOUStS, OR PUS, A. Sash 6x4 feet. B. i'/-inch steam pipe-. C. Cemented Iiciich 45^ feet wide. D. Walk 2 feel vpide and 6}< feet from ridge. E. Yellow pine gutter 10x4 inches. K. Front wall 3'; feet high. G. (iround level. I know that Mr. Henderson sells in large ijuantities, but he would have to have an itnmeuse market and then grow only a few varieties of soft sUifT. As for seedlings the majority of florists could not sell them at any price. I think that I15 is too low an estimate for care, firing, interest, etc., even for a common green- house with brick flue and certainly for a house put up as good as money can make it and heated by hot water or steam. Don't let the average florist or would-be plant grower think he can grow i,c<x) plants for fio and get rich from his sales, lie would find the balance on the wrong side very soon. RoHERT S. Brown. Kansas City, Mo. Low Greenhouses or Pits. Editor American :—In ac- cordance with the promise that I made when you called on me a few weeks ago, I herewith send you a few notes with sketches of our low greenhouses or pits recently erected. There is nothing new in the plan, it is almost identical with what we and others have had in use for the past thirty years, except it be that in- stead of lifting the sashes individually for ventilation with an iron bar for a lever, we now apply the ordinary hoisting appa- ratus, so that every alternate sash on the south side can be lifted to a height of nearly four feet. This was the great desideratum in our first erections of these low houses, whether of fixed roofs or portable sashes, that for the purposes for which such houses are best adapted—the grow- ing of hardy or half-hardy stuff—suf- ficient ventilation could not be obtained. These low houses are formed of sashes 6x4, the glass is double thick, 10x14.
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