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Title: A practical treatise on the construction, heating and ventilation of hot-houses; : including conservatories, green-houses, graperies and other kinds of horticultural structures...
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Leuchars, Robert B
Subjects: Greenhouses
Publisher: New York: : C. M. Saxton, Barker...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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breadth of the house, and is covered withgrating, which serves as a path for watering, and conduct-ing the necessary operations connected with the culture ofthe plants. £, E, E, an open Balcony, passing all round the house, andsurrounded by a balustrade. This balcony forms a contin-uation of the porch on the one side, and runs out upon theground-level on the other. From this balcony are seenthe garden, the lakes, the hot-house, and the ornamentalgrounds. The chief purpose of this balcony, however, isto maintain the ground-level of the floor, and to make theconservatory in harmony with the mansion, without de-stroying its adaptability as a first-rate plant-house, of thatclass intended for growing large specimens, planted out inthe ground. F, Steps, leading from the balcony into the pleasure-grounds. G, Door opening from the drawing-room. if. Rock-work for alpine plants, surrounding the aquarium and jet.For end view of this house, see Frontispiece. INTEEIOR ARRANGEMENTS. 95 Fig. 32. E
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E ^yx^j^yyjyi^jCtX>coA/y^ E a €> 96 INTERIOR ARRANGEMENTS. (^mseivatories are, probably, the most important structuresused in ornamental gardening; and, as we have already said inregard to other kinds of horticultural buildings, we say, also, ofthem, that no degree of gardening ability, and practical attentionon the part of the gardener, will compensate for the want of lightand air; and, where the arrangements for the working of thehouse, in regard to air, heat, &;c., are imperfect, the risk is great,and it is painful for a skilful and zealous gardener to contem-plate the consequences which he may be unable to prevent.One single night may destroy the labors of years past, and for-bid hope for years to come; and, after all, the blame may belaid where it is least merited, and censure withheld from theparty who most deserved it. In all buildings, and especially conservatories, the most com-plete and elegant design, when badly executed, is disagreeableto the view, defective in

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