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glass in connection with the kitchen gardens (see 

 fig. 60), and where it is customary to raise choice 

 flowers in long ranges of hothouses, these can be 

 in a properly defined area screened at the end by 

 treillage or walls through which the visitor can enter 

 and pass through each house. The difficulty 

 becomes a real one when the greenhouse is attached 

 to the house itself, as must often be the case in small 

 property and wherever there is a desire to have 

 plants under glass approached from the rooms. 

 Many attempts have been made to " beautify " these 

 buildings, often at the expense of their utility and 

 more frequently at the expense of good taste. The 

 safest course to pursue is to avoid ornament, to 

 build the greenhouse in as straightforward and 

 substantial a manner as possible, and then to plan its 

 immediate surroundings with the greatest care. If 

 it is treated as a lacuna in the scheme of solid 

 buildings and walls, and is kept quite simple, it will 

 scarcely assert itself. Set between formal walls, and 

 behind a dwarf hedge or paving with square tubs, 

 it will fall into line with the general plan. 



It is quite different with orangeries and bay 

 houses. Here the glass can be arranged in long 



