. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GLASS STRUCTURES AND APPLIANCES. 43 servatory, that may cover an acre or more of ground, than the Nottingham artisan is of his green-house, a yard wide, two yards long, and a yard and a half high. True, he may have to stoop to enter such a structure; but he has stooped to conquer nature to good purpose, and his prodigies of successful culture are to him and his family and friends perpetual soui-ces of the highest and purest pleasure. Almost all the forms of small green-house lend themselves readily to development. The lean-to form of Fig. 20, somewhat
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. GLASS STRUCTURES AND APPLIANCES. 43 servatory, that may cover an acre or more of ground, than the Nottingham artisan is of his green-house, a yard wide, two yards long, and a yard and a half high. True, he may have to stoop to enter such a structure; but he has stooped to conquer nature to good purpose, and his prodigies of successful culture are to him and his family and friends perpetual soui-ces of the highest and purest pleasure. Almost all the forms of small green-house lend themselves readily to development. The lean-to form of Fig. 20, somewhat ex- tended, becomes what may be called the aver- age amateur green-house, as seen almost everywhere, and which needs no further descrip- tion. It may only be well to observe that these lean-to houses are sometimes con- structed without lights in the front wall, which should then be made somewhat lower ; as, al- though such shaded sides have their uses, they must not be car- '' ried too far. As a rule, this con- struction is pro- bably adopted in order to confine the glazed work as much as possible to plain "lights," or sashes, rest- ing at once on the lowered front wall. This reduces the cost of building by nearly one-half; and if the roof is glazed, on stout sash-bars or light i^afters, and roof-lights or sashes also dispensed with, as is often done, the labour and cost of erection will bo still further lessened, while the house may be made even more strong, and will prove quite as durable and efficient. The regular or hip-spanned house is equally capable of enlargement, and lends itself more readily (con- sidering the cost) to some amount of ornamentation. Being generally detached and quite independent of any other building, such are made in various standard patterns by most of the horticultural engineers. Many of these can be obtained cheaper than they Fig. 22.—Small Okn-amental Attached Consekvatoey. could possibly be erected specially; and of course they are al
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