Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . tyle of house referred to, which may be usedfor the purpose of growing flowers for winter—Roses,green-house, or bedding plants, or anything requiringprotection in winter. The green-houses represented inthis plan are 100 feet in length, and each 11 feet wideinside. The heating of the whole (that is, the threemeasuring from the outside walls 36x100 feet) is done byone of Hitchlngs Combination Boilers (C), heating about1200 feet of 4-inch pipe (D). The glass roof (E) isfor
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . tyle of house referred to, which may be usedfor the purpose of growing flowers for winter—Roses,green-house, or bedding plants, or anything requiringprotection in winter. The green-houses represented inthis plan are 100 feet in length, and each 11 feet wideinside. The heating of the whole (that is, the threemeasuring from the outside walls 36x100 feet) is done byone of Hitchlngs Combination Boilers (C), heating about1200 feet of 4-inch pipe (D). The glass roof (E) isformed of portable sashes, each 6 feet by 3 feet; eachalternate sash is screwed down, the others being movable,%o that a full supply of air can be given when necessary. The movable ^ash is elevated by an iron bar 15 incheslong, attached to the sash by a staple; in this bar threeholes are punched, at distances of 3 inches; by means ofthese holes the bar can be hooked upon an iron pin placedin the ridge pole, and thus hold the sash more or lessopen, to graduate the admission of air. When the sash GSEEX-nOUSE STRUCTURES. 65. Fig. 12.—GREEN-HOUSE HEATED BY HOT WATER PIPES. 56 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. is sliut down, the bar is hooked on to a pin that secures itin place, so that the sash cannot be moved by wind. Iam particular to describe this method of airing, as it is, asfar as our experience has gone, the best method we haveever seen used. Tlie ridge-poles are cut out exactly as isshown at J, and the sash lays on the shoulder, braced bythe anoxic shown in the cut. The interior arrano-ementsare shown by the end section. G shows the bench, ortable, as it is completed. The space beneath the bench,if bottom heat is required for propagating or other pur-poses, should be boarded up below the bottom of thepipes, the lower board being hinged, so that, in cold nights,additional heat can be given to the atmospliere of thehouse, if required. But for the general uses of growingplants, the ben
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