. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. ^ij. i i'^ tl ? 1^2—How to Make the Garden I^ay. The cellar is 40 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. The walls, which are 18 inches thick, rise I foot above ground. The rafters reach clear to the ground, where they rest on plates placed there to keep the roof from spreading. The ends are weather-boarded on both sides of six-inch studs, and filled in with sawdust. The roof is also double with a sawdust filling. A number of partitions well-lined with paper, and forming two or three perhaps even four dead-air spaces of two inches each
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. ^ij. i i'^ tl ? 1^2—How to Make the Garden I^ay. The cellar is 40 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. The walls, which are 18 inches thick, rise I foot above ground. The rafters reach clear to the ground, where they rest on plates placed there to keep the roof from spreading. The ends are weather-boarded on both sides of six-inch studs, and filled in with sawdust. The roof is also double with a sawdust filling. A number of partitions well-lined with paper, and forming two or three perhaps even four dead-air spaces of two inches each in width, would probably be still more effective and convenient. The height of the house inside is 4 feet at the eaves, and 11 at the peak. A ventilator at the peak admits air when needed, and gives a chance for the escape of heat that may be generated by the mass of celery. A door at each end, a small window over each to admit light, and steps to get down, complete the house. ^ , .. '' In storing the celery," writes Mr. Baker, ^' posts are set in the ground about 16 inches apart, beginning at each side on one endofthehouse, and coming toward the centre, giving seven posts or alleys to a side, and leaving a passage-way two feet wide the entire length of the building. Three sets of posts on one side of the passage-way, and four on the other will suit 16 feet boards, two and a half lengths on one side, and two lengths on the other. This leaves a space 8 feet square for washing tank, and room to prepare the stuff for market.'* ^ " Beginning next to the wall, we nail a board a foot wide to the post, so that the top of the celery will be even with the top ofthe board, leaving a space of four to six inches between the bottom of the board and the ground, through which one hand can be thrust to pack the roots firmly while the other holds the tops of the celery over the board. Some loose rich soil is thrown over the roots after the box or trench is filled from end to end. W
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