THE AMATEUR’S GREENHOUSE
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along it or obliquely is mainly a matter of taste. In any case the bearers should rest solidly on bricks and be so affixed that while they do not “ ride,” they can easily be removed for cleaning beneath and for putting down an
Diagram 4.—Types of Greenhouse Flooring: 1. Struts set laterally. 2. Struts set obliquely. 3. Struts set longitudin-ally. 4. Section of Fig. 3 standing on brick pier. 5. Section of Fig. 1 standing on brick pier.
annual coating of coal ashes. These walks are always dry and comfortable, are easily cleaned and yet do not inter-fere with the maintenance of moisture.
I like also trellis stagings, but as it would not be well