AN 0RCII1DE0U8 HOUSB IN SOUTH WALES. 



SOME ACCOUNT OF AN ORCIIIDKOUS HOUSE, 



CONSTRUCTKl) AT rKNLLKUGAHK, SonTlI WALES. 

 BY J. DILLWYN LLEWELYN, ESQ., F. H. S. 



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Interior of Orchideous House at Penllergare. 



I INCLO.se with 

 this the section of 

 the stove, wliieli 

 I promised to 

 send. Tliis will 

 show the shape 

 of the l)uildiii<i:; ; 

 the water for tlie 

 supply of the cas- 

 cade is conduct- 

 ed to the top of 

 the house by 

 means of a pipe 

 communicating 

 with a pond at 

 a higher level. 

 This pipe is 

 warmed by pass- 

 ing with a single 

 coil through the 

 boiler, and ter- 

 ininates at the 

 top of the rock- 

 work, where it 

 pours a constant 

 supply of water 

 over three pro- 

 jecting irregular 

 steps of rough 

 stone, each of 

 which catches the 

 falling stream, 

 dividing it into 

 many smaller 

 rills, and in- 

 creasing the 

 quantity of misty 

 spray. At the 

 bottom the whole 

 of the water is 

 received into the 

 pool which occu- 

 pies the centre of 

 the floor of the 

 stove, where it 

 widens out 

 an aquarium 



