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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 of a 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 glabs 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 Marryattse, 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. 



