Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . dozen houses that go to make up a comjDleteplant, in the very selection of the houses for the estab-lishment there would be opportunity for hundreds, andeven thousands, of combinations. We have outlinedabove the structural peculiarities of seven or eight of themore important houses, and have elsewhere describedthe rose house, propagating house, forcing house, etc.,and now offer for consideration perspective views andground pl
Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . dozen houses that go to make up a comjDleteplant, in the very selection of the houses for the estab-lishment there would be opportunity for hundreds, andeven thousands, of combinations. We have outlinedabove the structural peculiarities of seven or eight of themore important houses, and have elsewhere describedthe rose house, propagating house, forcing house, etc.,and now offer for consideration perspective views andground plans of greenhouse establishments, designed bythe leading horticultural architects and builders of thecountry. The first illustration, Fig. 100, shows a part of thegreenhouses at the Michigan Agricultural College, andin Fig. 101 a ground plan of the houses is shown. Thisrange of houses is not an elaborate one, but it is wellarranged, and in connection with a grapery and twoforcing houses makes a fairly complete contains a palm house, or conservatory, fifty-eight bytwenty-five feet, a stove room twenty-five feet square. 18(; GREENHOUSE ARRANGEMENT OF GREEKHOUSES. 187 a cool liouse of the same size, a rose room eigliteen bybwenty-five feet, two propagating (hot and cold) houseafor the growing of bedding plants, each twelve by fiftyfeet, and another room twenty-five by twenty-four feet,that is used as occasion demands. The workroom istwenty-five by fifteen feet, and is over the heaters. Thegardeners house, as shown in the illustration, is joinedto the conservatory. The houses shown in perspective were erected in1892, by Lord & Burnham Co., and are of their iron
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