A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural . hape,and w^hich we have often found useful for hardening youngstock, in the early part of summer, which was intended for bed-ding out in the flower-garden. It can also be set on a dung-bed for growing early melons, cucumbers, and starting youngplants into growth ; for this it is admirably adapted, as the lightis admissible all round. A portable frame of this kind may be made of any size. Wefind, however, that about
A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural . hape,and w^hich we have often found useful for hardening youngstock, in the early part of summer, which was intended for bed-ding out in the flower-garden. It can also be set on a dung-bed for growing early melons, cucumbers, and starting youngplants into growth ; for this it is admirably adapted, as the lightis admissible all round. A portable frame of this kind may be made of any size. Wefind, however, that about four feet wide, and six or eight feetlong, is the most convenient size for practical purposes. Fig. 12, the portable plant protector, which will be foundexceedingly useful for covering individual plants, standing inthe open ground. Those may be glazed with coarse glass, orcovered with oil-cloth. They will be found of much utility incovering the more tender conefirs during winter, as well as dur-ing summer from the intense heat. By having the south side ofthe case painted with a slight coat of a lime solution, to darken5 4S STRUCTURES ADAPTED TO PARTICULAR PURPOSES. Fig. Fig. 8. Fig. 12.
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