102 REMARKS ON VERANDAHS FOR PLANTS, ETC. 



Rhododendrons, large and grotesque specimens of succulent plants, 

 &c. ; and these, with a judicious selection of fine-flowering climbing 

 plants, must always constitute the chief furniture of such a structure. 

 The minor decorations may consist of Geraniums, Helitropeums, 

 Fuchsias, Roses, Calceolarias, the harder and free-flowering Ericae, 

 and other fine-flowering plants that are to be brought in, in succession, 

 so as to keep the verandah at all time in a full-flowering state. 



With the addition of a small brick pit of six or eight lights in 

 length, having a flue in it to exclude frost, and divided in the middle, 

 so that one end may be kept rather warmer than the other, all the 

 plants above enumerated, and many more, may be grown in great 

 perfection, so as to be brought in while in flower to decorate the 

 verandah, and at little trouble or expense, and within the means of 

 almost every person who occupies a house in the villa or cottage 

 style. 



It would be useless to attempt to give directions that would be 

 generally applicable to all houses of this sort ; suffice it to say, that 

 after having disposed of the large specimens of plants, so as to pro- 

 duce the most pleasing effect in the mind of the owner, the smaller 

 ones may be tastefully arranged on pedestals, ornamental flower 

 baskets, and in a variety of ways that would give effect to the whole. 

 It should, however, be observed, that the nearer to the light and 

 glass that all small-leaved plants are placed the better: the thicker 

 and larger-leaved plants, such as Oranges, Camellias, Hydrangeas, 

 &c, and most succulent plants, excepting the genus Mesembry- 

 anthemum, may be placed at a greater distance from the light. 



In regard to heating the verandah, it should be by means of flues 

 or hot-water pipes, placed under the level of the floor, the heat 

 ascending from them into the house through ornamental metallic 

 plates, let into the pavement immediately over them, or, as the object 

 is to repel frost only during the winter, an elegant German stove may 

 be placed near one end, having its smoke-conducting pipes stretching 

 out towards the other extremity. The whole expense of such a stove 

 for a small house would not exceed five or ten pounds, and it may 

 be used for many purposes when not in use in the verandah, which 

 will in few seasons be longer than from the beginning of December 

 to the middle or end of February. 



Great caution ought to be observed to prevent such stoves from 

 becoming too hot, and also that they be placed sufficiently distant 



