THE FLORAL WORLD 



AND 



GARDEN GUIDE. 



JANUARY, 1866. 



THE GEEENHOUSE FEENEEY. 



IVEIST, a recess in the walls of a house, and wliat shall we 

 do with it ? It is of no use to put the question to echo, 

 who is represented as giving answers as required, because 

 an honest echo could only reply, " Do with it!" which, at 

 the best, would be ambiguous, and might be supposed to 

 mean, " Do away with it !" In a certain sense, that is just what I 

 have done ; for, by converting the recess into a fernery, it is a 

 recess no more, but a part and parcel of the garden, and yet not 

 utterly separated from the dwelling-house. Please allow a few 

 hap-hazard lines to represent the case in the first instance. If you 

 suppose A to be one side of the house, and C another side, then B 



will be the recess or hole in the wall requiring to be occupied in 

 some way or other, or by some construction to be blotted out. 

 Letter A looks west, letter C north ; the garden-walk passes by the 

 side of the house along the line A, and past the gap B ; and as long 

 as that remains a gap, it is abominably ugly. It is nine years ago 

 since I filled up the gap B with a lean-to greenhouse, with the slope 

 of the roof looking west, and the door on the side which looks 

 north. Fig. 1 is the back wall of the house, fig. 2 the end wall, 

 fig. 3 the door, fig. 4 the front. This was at first used as a small 

 show-house ; for, being easy of access, always in sight, and in a 

 shady position, it served the double purpose of displaying a few good 

 things in a place where it was convenient to see them, and also, by 

 reason of its cool, shady position, keeping them longer in perfection 

 than they would have remained in any more sunny position. In the 



