Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . FI 4 GREENHOUSE CONSTKUCTIOlSr. water system consisted of an open copper kettle, orheater ( /), from the top of wliich a four-inch copperl)ipe passed across the end of the liouse, and then alongthe ojiposite side, to a large copper reservoir (e); thereturn pipe was located on a level, just beneath the flow,entering the boiler near the bottom. The flue was car-ried to one side until it reached the walk (c), ^nd thenran under t
Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . FI 4 GREENHOUSE CONSTKUCTIOlSr. water system consisted of an open copper kettle, orheater ( /), from the top of wliich a four-inch copperl)ipe passed across the end of the liouse, and then alongthe ojiposite side, to a large copper reservoir (e); thereturn pipe was located on a level, just beneath the flow,entering the boiler near the bottom. The flue was car-ried to one side until it reached the walk (c), ^nd thenran under this to the other end of the house, where itwas connected with the chimney [d). In the West, greenhouse construction was morebackward, and yet, as early as 1836, a Mr. Thomas,. FIG. ?!. FIRST CHICAGO G HEEif jOLSE. according to the American Florist, erected one in Chi-cago, of which an illustration is shown in Fig. 4. Aswill be seen from the engraving, the three-quarter spanhouses had even then come into use, although the entirenorth slope, and half of the south slope of the roof,Avere of wood. Previous to 1850 there were comparatively fewgreenhouses in the country, and, naturally, there wereno extensive builders. Among the first to engage in tiiebusiness was Frederic A. Lord, who erected his firsthouses in Buffalo, in 1855. In 1870 he removed toIrvington, and in 1872 entered into partnership AvithW. A. Buniham, under the firm name of Lord &Burnhain. In 1883 tha firm of Loid & Burnham Co. was HISTOKY OF GREENHOUSES. 5 incorporatGcl. The earlier houses erected by ibis firmwere, for tbe most part, m tbe curvilinear style, whicli,in a slightly modified form, is still used by them forlarge conservatories. In 1888 the firms of Hitchings & Co., and o
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