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THE VILLA GARDENER. 



516. A small greenhouse, for young plants which are to be bedded out, may 

 be attached to a gardener's cottage, — as was the case at Mrs. Lawrence's villa 

 at Drayton Green, and, as is shown in fig. 341., for the convenience of the 

 gardener attending to the plants at his leisure hours ; the house shown is of 

 the simplest description, and it is warmed by the fireplace of the living-room 

 of the cottage. In this house there may be troughs filled with sand, and 

 heated by hot water pipes, or smoke flues passing under them, which will serve 

 instead of hot beds for striking cuttings ; the pots containing the cuttings 

 being plunged into the heated sand. 



517. ^ greenhouse, with a stove attached, is shown in figs. 342, and 343. 

 The house has a ridge and furrow roof, andi fig. 342. is a cross section through 

 the middle of one of the ridges of the roof, in which are shown at i the 

 oblique direction of the sash bars between the ridge and the furrow, and the 



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