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also. This is easily done by having a separate set of pipes for the green- 

 house, the circulation of the water in which can be stopped whenever heat is 

 not wanted there. The fire-place being in a vault beneath the green-house, 

 there would be no danger of its ever communicating more heat through the 

 green-house floor than what would be salutary for the plants. Indeed, by 

 forcing culinary productions or growing mushrooms in the vault, and having 

 the green-house over it, scarcely a particle of heat generated by the fuel 

 would be lost. The forcing-houses, in a suburban garden of this kind, can- 

 not, in general, be made higher tnan the party-wall of the garden ; because this 

 would be to produce a greater shade on the adjoining garden than would be 

 submitted to by its occupier ; whose permission would be necessary even to 

 raise the green-house, so that its floor might be on a level with that of the 

 sitting-room. 



179. A small suburban garden, like that shown in fg.id., with the wall 

 having a south aspect covered with glass, with two small forcing-houses, and 

 a reserve garden with pits and frames at the end, would require a first-rate 

 gardener, or a zealous and skilful amateur, to manage it to the greatest ad- 

 vantage ; and, in our opinion, unless it is done, it is better to dispense with 

 glass in a garden altogether. 



