The Garden Under Glass

CHAPTER I THE AMATEUR’S GREENHOUSE An All-round House I would like it to be distinctly understood that I do not m end to show how to make a greenhouse in the sense in which a joiner would understand the term. I can lay no c aim. to skili in carpentry, but I do pretend to a knowledge 0 the needs of plants, and of the means of arranging the greenhouse and its inferior equipage so as to secure for ærn the best conditions. Sanitary conditions in the sense of affording plenty of light, air, drainage, etc., are as essential to health in plant as in human life. I do not vise readers generally to make their own greenhouse, or.unless their trade lies in that direction the ex-Periment is likely to be anything but successful; but y assimilating a knowledge of the essential conditions ley may insist on the greenhouse being practical and useful. At present I have in mind what we might call an allround plant house which will serve for all the purposes unted at in the Introduction. Such a house does not tend be ^er^ec^on ™ culture, but often it is the most that can one. If we cannot have a perfect greenhouse let us a east have a practical one. We have to consider as cosf1110^ aS Possible asPec( site, size and probable 3