544* THE GREEN-HOUSE 



in the middle, and falling to either side and end; 

 corresponding with the glasses, thoiigh of course 

 not so steep. 



A row of cplnmns should be placed in the centre, 

 in order to support the ridge of the roof; to which 

 climbing plants might be trained in various forms, 

 and might be hung in festoons from column to co- 

 lumn at top, or otherwise, as may be dictated by 

 fancy. The front of the stage all round, should be 

 raised about eighteen or twenty inches above the 

 walk, in order to raise the whole of the plants placed 

 on it sufficiently near to the glass : thus forming the 

 walk into a deep alley ; the person walking in it ha- 

 ving a narrow border of the finer and smaller plants 

 on the one hand, and a bank of tlie more common 

 and larger kinds on the other ; than which, when 

 the plants are healthy and thriving, few^ scenes can 

 be more pleasing. 



The aspect of such a house should be towards the 

 south ; that is to say, it should stretch from east to 

 west, or as nearly so as circumstances v/ill permit. 

 It may have an entrance on the south side, or one 

 at eithfer end, as shall be most convenient and suit- 

 able to its connexion W/ith the walks of the shrub- 

 bry or parterre in which it is placed. 



If a green-house must necessarily be attached to 

 a w^all or other building, it might be constructed 

 very much as above ; with this difference, having 

 one of tlie ends as it were cut off; in which case, it 

 should be placed with its circular end south, or to- 

 wards that point, and the sides pointing east and 

 west. Tiiis I should consider as the second best 



