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FLOWER GARDEN. 



having the mould shaken from their roots, may be repot- 

 ted and shifted repeatedly during the summer and autumn. 



BOTANICAL STRUCTURES. 



GLAZED houses for the reception and culture of exotic 

 plants, though sometimes placed in connection with similar 

 structures in the forcing department, are now almost uni- 

 versally regarded as appendages of the flower garden. In 

 the hands of architects they have assumed a great variety 

 of forms, and too often has practical utility been sacrificed 

 to architectural taste. We shall confine ourselves to the 

 exhibition of the principle of the most important of these, 

 and shall limit our remarks to the Green-house, Conserva- 

 tory, and the Stove. 



The Green-house is intended to afford a winter and 

 partly a summer shelter to the less tender classes of exotic 

 plants grown in pots. The annexed wood cut exhibits the 



Fig. 17. 



old-fashioned lean-to green-house. The general form of 

 the house is that of a vinery, with pretty lofty front 



