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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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n orchard-housemay be made of great benefit in small gardens whichare not enclosed by walls. It may be made to January 24, 1880.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 109 answer the purpose of growing fruit, and also ofaffording protection to one side of the garden byexcluding cold winds. The position of an orchard-house should dependupon circumstances, and as the first expense is aconsideration, the earliest situation would be chosenin large gardens where a supply of Strawberries,French I.eans, early Teas, Cauliflowers, Polatos,and other vegetables and salads are in request daring and there were no existing walls which could be pro-fitably utilised, I would decidedly prefer a capaciousspan-roofed house, running north and south, to anyother, as affording the healthiest means of ventila-tion to the trees, as well as securing a maximum ofsun and light. There is yet another point I would urge uponintending builders, namely, that a narrow short houserequires two ends and two doors as well as one that
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Fig. 21.—DOUBLE leaf of nf.penthes zevlanica. the months of May and June. For this purpose,where there is a wall facing the south, it should beutilised, and in this case the house should be a lean-to (with a hip-roof, and not less than from 16 to18 leet wide, wiih a border 2! feet in width along theback, and a path of the same dimensions, or a narrowgrid path might be substituted with a 44-inch brickwall, supported by light buttresses, running parallelwith the outside of the path, in order to keep thetrees trained on the back wall from travelling throughthe border where it was intended to be cropped withearly vegetables. If I were building an orchard-house or myself, is larger. Many people who have not the benefit ofpractical advice think a small house must be com-paratively cheap, which seems a reasonable assump-tion, while it is in fact proportionately dearer thanthe larger one. Take, for example, a house of anygiven size, 40 feet long, and express a wish to thebuilder of having i

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