. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 252 GARDEN SiAJN £:.ie:>t. 68^. The cap or ridge screwed on, and tlie ends properly fixed, it onlv remnins to replace them with, suchborder^ :>o are considered suitable for the tree^ or 1 lants to be grown in them. The soi: of the border, both outside and in, should be flush with the level of the gutter or wall-plate, so as to exclude the external air; and it should slope outwardly so as to throw off moisture. With these observations we dismiss a very efficient an
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. 252 GARDEN SiAJN £:.ie:>t. 68^. The cap or ridge screwed on, and tlie ends properly fixed, it onlv remnins to replace them with, suchborder^ :>o are considered suitable for the tree^ or 1 lants to be grown in them. The soi: of the border, both outside and in, should be flush with the level of the gutter or wall-plate, so as to exclude the external air; and it should slope outwardly so as to throw off moisture. With these observations we dismiss a very efficient and inexpensive style of horticul- tm'al building. 684. Practical men consider these houses admii-ably adapted for fruit- cultivation and vineries, or, indeed, anything that requires training parallel with the glass. For potted plants, or shrubs requiring head-room, some consider them objectionable and difficult to manage, the roof springing from the soil of the border rendering it difficult to get at the plants at the sides. This is a well-founded objection, and as the whole argument in their favour is involved in this feature, which gives simplicity and economy to their erection, it is probably calculated to limit their use to vineries, and very narrow fruit- houses requiring an acute inclination. The simplicity of their structure, and the ease and rapidity with which they can be put up and removed, will recommend them to many who hold their houses on shorter uncertain tenures; while the fact that the side-styles and sash-bars are undoubtedly of the best material, and ofa strength calculated according to their length, will recommend them as preferable to any make-shift VIII.—sectio:n^ op gekenhouse asd cold-pits. 685. In the construction of horticultural buildings there is no economy inferior workmanship applied to the first erection. While we point out the various kinds of structure and the most approved modes of erecting them, with some approximation to their cos
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