. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. GREENHOUSES AND FRAMES 221 A smaU, round, hot-water boOer is used for heating th
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. GREENHOUSES AND FRAMES 221 A smaU, round, hot-water boOer is used for heating the coils. The boiler IS arranged with a shaking and dumping grate. When the beatmg apparatus is filled with water and the fire started, the water circulates through the pipes and maintains the reqmred temperature. Ihe entoe heating apparatus is simplicity itself; a child could take care of it. When the greenhouse is 18 ft. wide and 50 ft. long, a partition can be placed m the center, making two compartments, and different. The "King Junior" garden frame made by the King Construction Co., a sort of miniature greenhouse, the top being on hinges. Being glazed on the sides as well as top the plants are afforded every possible bit of sunlight temperatures can be maintained in each if desired. The compartment nearest to the boiler is usually heated to a higher temperature. If Roses are to be grown in the warmest compartment, it is customary to place heating pipes under both side and center benches for bottom heat, and to dry out the benches. The heating pipes are so arranged and valved in both compartments that the temperature can be controlled as desired. For heating a greenhouse 18 ft. x 50 ft., a small square sectional water boiler is used. There are no steam gauges or compli- cated fixtures required on a'hot water heating Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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