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between the meanings of such terms as " stove," " hothouse," 

 " greenhouse," and " conservatory," would serve no useful 

 purpose. They are all plant houses, and depend for their dis- 

 tinctions quite as much on the furnishing and the management 

 as upon structure and iittings. A house may be heated to 80° 

 or 90° to-daj for the comfort of orchids, and be called a stove. 

 If we remove the orchids and put pelargoniums in their 

 place, and lower the temperature to 10° or 50°, it becomes a 

 greenhouse. We have but to enlarge it, and introduce camel- 

 lias and acacias, and give the whole aflair a somewhat elegant 

 aspect, and it becomes a conservatory. These several terms 

 are convenient because they refer to different things. But 

 there is no occasion to define them precisely, and we might 

 indeed go wrong were we to attempt the definition. 



THE CEIMSOX-tEAVED PAXIT. 



{Welfia regia.) 



