CHAPTER II 

 ON TYPICAL COLD GREENHOUSES 



THE unheated greenhouse may be represented by four distinct 

 types, which can be classed as follows : i. The glass-garden. 

 2. The garden corridor. 3. The conservatory. 4. The 

 ordinary span, or lean-to greenhouse. Under each of these 

 heads a few remarks will be necessary. 



THE GLASS-GARDEN 



Under the somewhat clumsy name for want of a better 

 of the glass-garden it is intended to express the greenhouse 

 adapted for the permanent planting of shrubs and climbers. 

 It is, in fact, a garden in miniature, covered by glass, but re- 

 quiring no interior furnishing, as of stands or stages, other 

 than the plants themselves. The laying out of the beds, 

 borders, and pathways must be controlled by the size of the 

 structure and the kind of plants, be they shrubs or be they 

 alpines, to be grown in it ; but while the main planting is per- 

 manent, it can and should be so arranged as to leave ample 

 room for the introduction of successional plants. This, in 

 outline, is the idea of the glass-garden and while it may be 

 the most ambitious, it is, perhaps, also the most delightful, 

 type of the cold greenhouse. Such a house may be of grand 

 dimensions an annexe, possibly, of one of the long ranges of 

 glass-houses to be found in many a stately garden, constructed 



