. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. ORCnARD HOUSES. 295 â : n , except that it should be higher at the sides, wiih the roof more flattened, in order that the trees may be brought as near the glass as possible. Ventilation is an important item, as too great heat, or a confined atmos- phere, are incompatible with success. A span-roof house should have ventilators all along the bottom and top, and lean-to houses require even more openings than span-roofs. Mr. Rivers, of England, who first set in motion the art of fruiting trees in the house, built his first houses like sheds, or what i
. Barry's Fruit garden. Fruit-culture. ORCnARD HOUSES. 295 â : n , except that it should be higher at the sides, wiih the roof more flattened, in order that the trees may be brought as near the glass as possible. Ventilation is an important item, as too great heat, or a confined atmos- phere, are incompatible with success. A span-roof house should have ventilators all along the bottom and top, and lean-to houses require even more openings than span-roofs. Mr. Rivers, of England, who first set in motion the art of fruiting trees in the house, built his first houses like sheds, or what is termed lean-to, and so far the most of the structures erected in this country for this purpose have been of that style. The house of Mr. Pullen, in New Jersey, which has proved a commercial success, is fourteen feet wide and one hun- dred feet long. The house of Mr. Lovering is the same width, with the back wall twelve feet and the front wall four feet high. Fig. 145 is an end view, taken from Dr. Norris' work on *' Fruit Trees in Pots," in which the interior arrangement is given as follows: "The fruit border (three feet six inches wide) is raised nine inclies above the walk (which is two feet six inches wide); the first back border is three feet wide and raised sixteen inches above the walk. The second back border is raised one foot above the front one and is four feet ; In " Peach Culture," by J. A. Fulton, a lean-to house, twelve feet wide by fifty feet long, is described, with the back wall fourteen feet high and the front four feet (sec fig. 146). In this house it will be seen that the lower range of sash is hung on hinges to a plate securing the lower ends of the upper sash, and no other ventilation is sup- plied, except by the opening of doors. It is designed, in. Fig. 145.âEND VIEW OF Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appear
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