ON TYPICAL COLD GREENHOUSES n 



THE GARDEN CORRIDOR 



The unheated greenhouse may take on occasion the form of 

 a glass corridor, and when this happens to be a lean-to passage- 

 way connecting garden structures, or it may be outlying rooms 

 of a dwelling, it is the place of all others in which to grow 

 specimens of the rarer flowering shrubs, such as Carpenteria 

 californica, which succeed best when trained against a wall, 

 and which are all the better for having their root-room restricted 

 by a narrow border. Sometimes a glass corridor may more 

 conveniently have a span roof, as, for example, in cases where 

 there is no carriage-way to the entrance of the house, and more 

 or less distance has to be crossed in bad weather before 

 reaching shelter. A covered way, under such circumstances, 

 though not in itself beautiful, is a boon to guests, and some 

 method of making a simple glass-passage of the kind present- 

 able at small expense is no less a boon sometimes to the host. 

 There are plenty of hardy climbers of which use may be made, 

 like the finer kinds of Clematis and Jasmines, of Ivy and of 

 Vine, not to speak of Tea Roses, which are the glory of the 

 cold-house gardener, while a corridor is a most fitting place 

 for Agapanthus or Crinum Moorei, or any such grand but 

 unwieldy plants, which are best grown in tubs or in Italian 

 pottery of the massive sort. The only wonder is, with such 

 wealth of fine and easily grown plants of every kind and habit 

 at command, that our glass-houses should, even at this date, 

 be so indifferently furnished as to variety, which the majority 

 of them undoubtedly are. 



But further discussion of suitable subjects for cold green- 

 house treatment must be set aside for the present, and we 

 must turn to the less ambitious types of glass-house, to be 

 found in everybody's garden, which are mainly under the 

 personal control of the owner, with or without the help of a 

 gardener. 



