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now got up in the United States, ought to make them 

 an appendage to every complete country dwelling. 

 "We can add little to what is so well said in the pre- 

 ceding. Yet there is one benefit of the conservatory 

 to which the reader's attention may, with great pro- 

 priety, be called. Doctor Alexander H. Stevens, a 

 distinguished physician of New York, thus speaks of 

 the value of green-houses, in Downing's Horticulturist: 



" Having for many years suffered from a pulmonary 

 complaint, some ten or twelve years since, in visiting 

 the green-house of Mr. Niblo, then my neighbor in 

 Broadway, during the winter, I found the atmosphere 

 exceedingly congenial. It abated my cough, rendered 

 the expectoration loose and easy, softened the skin, 

 and induced a comfortable state of feeling, approach- 

 ing to exhilaration. Wishing to have such an atmos- 

 phere at command, I constructed a cold grapery, in 

 which, whenever it has been convenient, I have passed 

 the hours of reading and study. The climate of a cold 

 green-house, in a sunny day of the winter or spring, is 

 a Florida climate, and is entirely different from that 

 of an artificially heated atmosphere. I venture to re- 

 commend it, under most circumstances, to pulmonary 

 invalids, in preference to the more expensive plan of 

 removal to the south, involving, as it does, much dis- 

 comfiture, interruption of business, hazard, exposure, 

 and entire separation from friends." — Ed. 



Stable-court, axd Offices. — The stables and their 

 appendages may form a suitable part of the mansion- 

 honse group of buildings, where the latter are not 

 below the medium size ; but when circumstances do 

 not permit this arrangement, I would recommend for 

 them a dry, sunny, airy situation, commanding a good 



