A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural . hich it was buih. Fig. 25 shows the appearance of the house, on the proportionswhich are given in the above plan, (Fig. 24,) which, in ouropinion, admits of more room for plants than any other formthat can be built at the same cost; for, although we might adopta semi-circular form for the end toward the most prominentpoint of view, it must be remembered that this would add con-siderably to its cost. Our object here
A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural . hich it was buih. Fig. 25 shows the appearance of the house, on the proportionswhich are given in the above plan, (Fig. 24,) which, in ouropinion, admits of more room for plants than any other formthat can be built at the same cost; for, although we might adopta semi-circular form for the end toward the most prominentpoint of view, it must be remembered that this would add con-siderably to its cost. Our object here is to give the sketch ofthe best and cheapest kind of house that can be erected for plant-growing, and such is the one here given. This house may be placed in any situation, as regards may be attached at one end to any other building, withoutmuch injury to its efficiency as a plant-house; and where it isfound absolutely necessary to attach green-houses to the wallsof other buildings, they should, by all means, be constructedafter the plan here given, or under some architectural modifica-tion of it, avoiding, if possible, that old, and now almost obsolete, Fig. system, of laying the roof up to the wall, as in a commongrapery, or of making the front of heavy pilasters and massivewood-work, like the orange-houses of the middle ages. Themethod of construction here described is that in which theplants enjoy the largest share of light; and this house is theeasiest managed — with respect to air and heat in winter, andmoisture and shade in summer—of all other methods whichhave come under our experience. 1^ STRUCTURES ADAPTED TO PARTICULAR PURPOSES. w ^ =1 ,M •-! — VI 1 -1 — -i Mf- i v,lu — J^ E 1 1 T| =ll=i vl =i!=i 1 [ /i||:|ri ?^ — —! ) ~t , — ;— Vl — \- I V — =1 rmmm it
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