Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings

FLUES.--Flues have been generally used in heating for many years, and although the method is rude, imperfect and unsatisfactory, they possess certain advantages on the score of...

If the soil is wet, or of a heavy nature, it would be better that the bed be made entirely upon the surface. If the situation is a dry one, and the soil gravelly or sandy, then...

In our present illustration we have an example of what may be done with a wall. It was necessary, for certain purposes, to cut away an embankment, and build a sustaining wall. A...

This design combines a grapery, and forcing, and propagating house in one. _Figs._ 13, 14, 15, show side elevation, south front, and section through the centre. The dimensions a...

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The majority of houses erected for this purpose among us, have been of the cheapest possible description. While the culture was merely experimental, this was all well enough; bu...