. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 32 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. disadvantages; and as every private garden has its own peculiar belongings and requirements, this part of the subject may now he dismissed for the consideration of the arrangement of the best houses and pits for feeding the fruiting department with properly-prepared succession plants. Succession houses need not be so large or so high as fruiting houses; but light, as has already been pointed out, being such an important element, the greatest care should be observed in making arrange- ments for its free admission to the p
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 32 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. disadvantages; and as every private garden has its own peculiar belongings and requirements, this part of the subject may now he dismissed for the consideration of the arrangement of the best houses and pits for feeding the fruiting department with properly-prepared succession plants. Succession houses need not be so large or so high as fruiting houses; but light, as has already been pointed out, being such an important element, the greatest care should be observed in making arrange- ments for its free admission to the plants, through every stage from the sucker to the finish. For general pirrposes there is nothing better than the unequal span-roofed house running east and west (Fig. 2) from twelve to fourteen feet in width, with movable lights for the convenience of plunging the plants, and the in- troduction of Oak-leaves or tan for affording the necessary bottom heat. A passage runs along the back, and hot-water pipes are present in sufficient quantity to secure the requisite degree of heat without having recourse to hard firing, which is objec- tionable in forcing- houses in general, and pine houses in particular. In addition to the suc- cession house, a pit, for propagating or rooting suckers as they are detached from the fruiting plants, is essential to the complete arrangement of the Pine-ground. An ordinary brick pit fitted with hot-water pipes answers very well, and is generally used for this purpose. It, however, lacks the important convenience of a passage along the back, by means of which the plants can receive attention without exposing them to the elements in bad weather. As the passage (Fig. 4) need not be more than two feet in width, a pit eight feet in the clear wiU give five feet of plunging-space, which is quite sufiicient for the purpose, as a greater width would place the front rows of plants beyond the reach of the attendant when external conditions render the opening of
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