. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . Fig-ure 32.—Valley in market gardenersgreenhouse showing the way thesashbars are attached to the plate. 76 VEGETABLE GARDENING. tile as shown at D, figure 31. In sections where fuel is highpriced the beds might he partially heated with manure. Figure 33 sho^s a cross section of a lean-to house that iseasily adapted to most locations, but especially suited to side-hills. It is tv/enty feet wide and may be made of any lengthdesired. It should have a boiler room on one end or at the backside as is most conve
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . Fig-ure 32.—Valley in market gardenersgreenhouse showing the way thesashbars are attached to the plate. 76 VEGETABLE GARDENING. tile as shown at D, figure 31. In sections where fuel is highpriced the beds might he partially heated with manure. Figure 33 sho^s a cross section of a lean-to house that iseasily adapted to most locations, but especially suited to side-hills. It is tv/enty feet wide and may be made of any lengthdesired. It should have a boiler room on one end or at the backside as is most convenient. It should, of course, extend eastand west so that the slope will be entirely to the south or south-east. The walls are made of cedar posts tightly boarded up onboth sides. The alleys are two feet wide and planked ovi eachside. The roof is shown made of permanent sash bars but these. Fig-ure 33.—Cross section of lean-to greenLouse. might be made of movable sash as recommended for the modelforcing pit. One ventilator is at the top of the roof and anotheris in the side wall. Two purlins extending the length of thehouse are supported by small gas pipe posts. The northerlybench is four feet wide, raised three feet above the alley andis filled with six inches of soil or it may be used for seed center bench is eight feet wide and may be solid or southerly bench is shown filled with stable manure and ispractically a hotbed. The same treatment may also be giventhe center bench. But where the plan is followed of making upa part of the benches with manure, it is well to have some or allof the roof glazed with movable sash, to facilitate th© work ol GLASS STRUCTURES. 77 putting in and taking out the manure. The use of stable manureto supplement the heating apparatus is a practice that may beeconomically followed in locations where coal is high priced
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