. The book of the garden. Gardening. effected by openings in the front wall a, and near the top of the back wall b. The furnace is placed in the shed behind, and the flues enter the house under the floor- level, and proceed to within two feet of the front wall, to admit of the vines being planted inside the house, so as to sustain no injury by the heat. They then rise above the surface, and pass to the farther end of the house, whence they return to where they entered, and the smoke is dis- charged by a chimney just over the fur- nace. To economise building, two fur- naces are placed in each s
. The book of the garden. Gardening. effected by openings in the front wall a, and near the top of the back wall b. The furnace is placed in the shed behind, and the flues enter the house under the floor- level, and proceed to within two feet of the front wall, to admit of the vines being planted inside the house, so as to sustain no injury by the heat. They then rise above the surface, and pass to the farther end of the house, whence they return to where they entered, and the smoke is dis- charged by a chimney just over the fur- nace. To economise building, two fur- naces are placed in each stoke-hole, the flues of which diverge to the right hand and to the left, as seen in fig. 410. The front wall is built on arches or on piers, lintelled over, the tops of either rising to within a few inches of the surface of the border, so that the roots of the vines when planted within may find a free passage out to the external border. This artist in general planted his vines within the house, so that the stems might be pro- tected from frost. There is no upright glass in these houses, as seen by fig. 409. The parapet is carried up 2 feet, and in it wooden ventilators are placed at regu- lar distances. The end sashes open upon hinges. These houses varied in length from 28 to 39 feet, according as they were for early or late crops ; the smallest being, of course, that intended for being first ripe. Their height at back was 10 feet from footpath level to top of rafter; 12 feet wide in the clear; and the front 2 feet high above the level of the border. Atkinson's vineries heated by hot water.— We cannot illustrate this kind of house better than by giving a cross section, fig. 411, of one of those erected at Woburn Abbey from designs by that gentleman, from which it will be seen it differs in some important respects from the last, as well as from most of those erected by him. The length, width, and back height are the same as in the last figure. The front wall consists principal
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