. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. The Canadian Horticulturist. 89. Fig. 432. — Heaters, etc. The house (Fig. 433) is 7x10 ; posts 7 feet high . drawers No. 1—3 feet wide, 8 feet 4 inches long—eight drawers on a side. They are made of inch and a half pine for the end and back—the front is 1 x 4 inches. The bottom of the drawers are covered with common sheeting tacked on well with nails—2, 2, 2, are shelves, made tight, and 7 inches apart, and to come within ten inches of the sides of the house. 3, 3, are the furnaces; they are made of sheet iro
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. The Canadian Horticulturist. 89. Fig. 432. — Heaters, etc. The house (Fig. 433) is 7x10 ; posts 7 feet high . drawers No. 1—3 feet wide, 8 feet 4 inches long—eight drawers on a side. They are made of inch and a half pine for the end and back—the front is 1 x 4 inches. The bottom of the drawers are covered with common sheeting tacked on well with nails—2, 2, 2, are shelves, made tight, and 7 inches apart, and to come within ten inches of the sides of the house. 3, 3, are the furnaces; they are made of sheet iron, half round, and laid on brick arches, and are the whole length of the house; the chimney is on the outside. The sheet iron should be made of No. 4—with a flange, so that one course of brick can be laid on the flange, to make it smoke tight. The drawers should be made all alike, so that if you wish to change them from top to bottom, they will fit anywhere, and they should be made to fit tight* so that when they are all in they will make the sides of the house tight. The shelves 2, 2, 2, etc., are to distribute the heat to all the drawers; the heat will strike the first shelf, and pass to the side of the house, and thence under the first drawer to the centre, and then over the drawer, and then the other, etc., till it gets to the top. The drawers, as you will see by the drawing, is put in from the outside of the house and in the centre of the space between the shelves ; 5 is a drawer 6 inches deep, 5 feet wide, and 6 feet long, to be used as required —good to use to finish fruit when in a hurry. 6 is a ventilator, the space in the roof 8 inches wide. No. 7 is a box, open at each end, to let in cold air—placed between the furnaces, so that the air will be heated in passing over them. The temperature of the house should be kept a little below the scalding point; if it should get too hot the lower drawers can be pulled out about six inches, and that will let in a
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