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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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sible; butthere are two serious objections to the adoption of a low angle.It incurs a liability to drip, and it provides a playground forcats in a district where those interesting quadrupeds abound.We once suflered in a frightful manner through the breaking ofa pane of glass on a low-roofed house when a party of catswere holding an out-door nocturnal demonstration upon it.They fell in and went mad with fright, and committed such AND CONSEEVATOUT. 9 havoc as for the time nearly broke our heart. The amateur intown must protect his interests, if his plant houses have low-angled roofs, by covering them at the distance of a foot fromthe glass with a cat proof wire-net, or adorning the wood-work everywhere with a miniature chevaux de frlse. It mustbe repeated that for general purposes the flatter the roof thebetter, especially for mixed collections and bedding plants.But if it is requisite to catch the earliest rays of the morningsun in the opening spring, a lean-to with a south-east aspect
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Tom, away; mark 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

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