THE CONSERVATORY. 155 
A conservatory should be roomy and airy, and so 
constructed that the full blaze of a summer sun can be 
prevented from playing upon the plants without arti- 
ficial or temporary shading; for shading is not good for 
them except it is ofa natural kind, that is, being merely 
of a nature to weaken the strong rays of the sun. A 
house set like the one above will answer this end in a 
great measure. Canvas shading of glass houses is 
both troublesome and expensive ; some thinly clothed 
creeper or climber may be better used for the roof of a 
permanent conservatory—such things as the Tacsonia 
Van Volxemii, Kennedya Marryattz, Convolvulus 
mauritanicus, Clematis indivisa, &c. These, if atten- 
tion is paid to them in training, may be made very use- 
ful in merely breaking off the full blaze of a hot sun. 
Ornamental conservatory construction is most ex- 
pensive, and is all very well in some places, and also 
desirable; but these ornamental places will not grow 
the plants of themselves, nor will they make a bad 
gardener a good one; while, in the case of such a 
plain construction as the one given above, if attended 
to by a good gardener, its plainness will be lost in the 
flowery decoration of the interior. 
