STRUCTURES ADAPTED TO PARTICULAR PURPOSES. '"iJ 



'"n small places where the limits of the ground do not admit of 

 a select position, or where it may be desirable to place the whcrie 

 of the glass structures together, either for economy, conven- 

 ience, or effect. 



When a grapery having some pretensions to architectural 

 display is desired, either to correspond with buildings already 

 on the place, or to form a connection between some portion of 

 the mansion and another, then the structure may possess a 

 heavier and more artistic character. This may be accomplished 

 without in the slightest degree infringing on the principle of 

 adaptability. For instance, there may be a recess, with the 

 proper aspect, in some part of the mansion, which the proprietor 

 may wish to fill up with a house productive of profit as well as 

 pleasure ; and for this purpose, he chooses a grapery, and wishes 

 a suitable house for the purpose, without destroying the general 

 harmony of his mansion. Or, perhaps, his premises may be 

 very limited in extent, and he wishes a fruit-house nearly of 

 the same order as his Tuscan or Italian villa ; in which case, a 

 house with a somewhat massive parapet and blocking-course, as 

 in Fig. 23, would be more in unison with his taste, ns well as 

 with the rest of the premises. 



This house, it will be observed, has rectangular ventilators in 

 the front wall, which give the house a more architectural 

 appearance ; the back wall is also surmounted by an ornamental 

 blocking-course, with ventilators for the admission of air throuo-h 

 the back wall. [See Ve?itilation.'\ 



We do not, by any means, justify the method of placing 

 fruit-houses immediately contiguous to the dwelling, yet such 

 is the taste of many. And as there is no valid reason why 

 persons may not carry out their particular fancies with their own 

 property, we have made the foregoing remarks for their benefit. 



We do not give the above cut as a model house for an archi- 

 tectural vinery, — of course, its ornamental character may be 

 increased, according to the money that is to be devoted to its 

 erection ; but with regard to the principles of its design, unless 

 the polyprosopic roof be adopted, which is considered by some 

 more architectural in its appearance than curvilinear roofs, 



when conjoined to the square forms of dwelling-houses. 



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