Excerpt from Greenhouse Construction and Heating: Containing Full Descriptions of the Various Kinds of Greenhouses, Stove Houses, Forcing Houses, Pits and Frames, With Directions for Their Construction A well-kept greenhouse or conservatory, heated to a moderate and pleasant degree, also affords a delightful winter resort, and enables fresh air and gentle exercise to be taken, even by invalids and delicate persons, who would otherwise be unable to pass the house-doors in severe weather. There is nothing more truly healthful than the smell of the fresh earth, the perfume of flowers, and the exhalations of active vegetation, while the moderately - heated conservatory or plant-house enables us to enjoy the climate of Italy or the South of France only just outside our own doors! Con stantly working in high temperatures is doubtless enervating in some degree, if not really injurious; but these are only necessary in the case of a comparatively few subjects, or for certain purposes, and a pleasant and moderate temperature of about 60 degs. Fahr. Is quite sufficient for the great majority of flowering and foliage plants, fruits, etc.; at any rate during the seasons of winter and spring. Again, how pleasant it is to be able to cut a handful of fresh and fragrant blossoms, a bunch or two of grapes, a few tomatoes, or the like, direct from the plants in one's own greenhouse! Such truly home-grown produce is really superior, as a rule, to anything of the kind bought in a shop, being, for one thing so much fresher, while quality and flavour may and should be studied by the private or amateur gardener to a much greater extent than is possible by the trade or market grower, Whose chief aim is quantity, almost irrespective of any other consideration, mere appearance, however, excepted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.