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Title: The amateur's greenhouse and conservatory : a handy guide to the construction and management of planthouses, and the selection, cultivation, and improvement of ornamental greenhouse and conservatory plants
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890
Subjects: Greenhouses Greenhouse plants Gardening
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the high noises.—Riuff Lear. and a steep pitch is to be preferred. Therefore, in building anearly vinery a nearly flat roof is of all things to be avoided.In any case, if doctors disagree, and the angle of the in-tended roof becomes a question dangerous to anybodys peaceof mind, it may be settled safely by the figure 45, for that isthe angle which affords the best compromise, and most safelysubserves a number of purposes. In fitting the interior we begin with a good paving of red foot-tiles, or something equally good and cheap obtainable in thelocality. With mosaic and other fanciful pavements we havenothing to do, for the simple reason that they are costly. 10 THE AMATEUR S GEEENHOUSE There is nothing so good for a stage in summer as large slates,and nothing so good in winter as open wood-work. The housesin which we keep miscellaneous plants have slate stages oneach side the centre walk. When affairs are made up for thewinter a substantial wood trellis is laid orer the slates at a
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Unbeedful, desperate, wild adventure.—1 Ren. VI. few inches distance, to allow of a free circulation of air aroundand under the pots. The trellis is made in convenient lengthsand consists of deal bars two and a half inches wide, threequarters of an inch thick, set one inch apart, witb cross-barsto brace them together. In any case the staging must be soarranged as to bring the plants as near as possible to the glass.The subjoined diagrams represent a good and a bad way offixing the staging. In fig. 1 is represented one side of a low-roofed span (A),and flat stasiing near the glass (B). This is a good arrange-ment. In fig. 2 is represented one side of a steep-roofed span(A), and rising stage (B). This is a very bad arrangement.The central path being in the line A B, the plants are veryconveniently placed both for seeing and getting at them, but AND CONSEEVATOET. 11 the lowest are so far from the glass that they must be drawnand blauched and miserable.

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