Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . nse of heating by hot water,(which is nearly half the cost of the whole), may put uperections of exactly the same character, and heat them bythe common smoke flue, at an expense of from five tosix dollars per lineal foot, in the manner shown by theplan, fig. 25. It will be seen by this sketch, that twoflues only are used for the three pits, each passing first upunder the bench on the outside houses, is carried alongthe end and returned through the middle houses; thisequalizes the temperature in all th
Gardening for profit; a guide to the successful cultivation of the market and family garden . nse of heating by hot water,(which is nearly half the cost of the whole), may put uperections of exactly the same character, and heat them bythe common smoke flue, at an expense of from five tosix dollars per lineal foot, in the manner shown by theplan, fig. 25. It will be seen by this sketch, that twoflues only are used for the three pits, each passing first upunder the bench on the outside houses, is carried alongthe end and returned through the middle houses; thisequalizes the temperature in all three, for the outsidehouses get only one run of the flue, but it being directlyfrom the fire, gives about the same heat to the outsidehouses as two runs in the middle house, which being at agreater distance from the fire, are much colder. Threeattached houses, heated thus, should not be over 50 feetlong, in this latitude. Southward they may be 60 feet,and northward 40 feet. Peculiarities of locality havemuch to do with the heating; in positions particularly FORCING PITS OR GREEN-HOUSES. 71.
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