100 REMARKS ON VERANDAHS FOR PLANTS, ETC. 



plants will require to be selected, and their arrangement made sub- 

 ordinate to the circumstances of the case. 



Such an erection will answer the purpose of an agreeable lounge 

 or promenade, which cannot fail to render them very desirable to the 

 valetudinarian at all seasons, and to the young and active in times of 

 rain and bad weather : it will also serve as a repository for exotic 

 flowering plants ; and if some taste be displayed in the management 

 and arrangement of them, they will produce a very pleasing effect. 

 In the disposal of plants in such houses, we would direct particular 

 attention to be paid to a judicious selection of choice free-flowering 

 climbers, to be planted in spaces prepared for them under the floor, 

 and to be trained up the front pilasters and under the rafters of the 

 roof. The spaces for these plants need not be more than chambers, 

 formed of about two feet by three, and eighteen inches deep, filled 

 with good peat and loam, in- which most plants of this description 

 will grow freely. A space of a semi-circular form should be left in 

 the pavement to receive the plant, and also to supply water to it; 

 this space need not be larger than about nine inches in length by six 

 in its greatest breadth ; and the opening should have a neat orna- 

 mental iron guard placed round it, about four inches in height, to 

 prevent the stem of the plant from being injured or broken. 



Presuming that the floor is paved, elegant stages or flower stands 

 should be tastefully arranged, and rendered portable by being mounted 

 upon castors; but their arrangement and position may be altered, at 

 the pleasure of the proprietor, so as to bring the plants into the light 

 and shade, as their habits and other circumstances may require. On 

 these stages or stands the smaller plants are to be placed. 



Large and fine specimens should be placed in vases, which of 

 themselves are ornaments for such a situation, if tastefully chosen. 

 These vases are manufactured by Mr. Austin, of the New Road, 

 London, at his artificial stone manufactory, and are both cheap and 

 durable. 



In structures of this kind, strict attention to the architectural style 

 of the dwelling should be by no means disregarded. It would be 

 incongruous and absurd to see a Doric, Corinthian, or Gothic build- 

 ing, to which a verandah or greenhouse of any other order were 

 appended, yet such instances of bad taste are often seen. Archi- 

 tectural decoration, however, must not be carried too far, particularly 



