PLANT-HOUSES. 



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attached to the dwelling-house, is not provided with any means of heating ; 



and it is placed so as to shut out a disagreeable view from the drawing-room 



■windows of a town or suburban 



dwelling ; from which windows it 



is easily entered across a small 



paved court. As the objdjj^ is to 



prevent any external objecrebeing 



seen through the glazed sides of 



the green-house, they are filled in 



with ground and coloured glass, 



disposed in an ornamental manner, 



as shown in^f/s. 364. and 365.; and 



the stage is also made ornamental, 



and is diversified with spaces for 



statues and vases, as indicated in 



the ground plan, fig. 363. 



365 



366 



535. A green-house, with an ornamental stage, and a trellis for climbers. 

 The stage is formed with angular points, so as to form a series of Vandyck, 

 or lozenge-like projections, as shown in fig. 366. The principal feature in 

 this house is the mode of arranging the 

 stages for pots ; the fanciful disposition 

 of which has a very agreeable effect from 

 the open space on one side, which is 

 used as a kind of morning room by the 

 ladies of the family, who sit there to 

 work or read. Ornamental climbing 

 plants are trained up the pillars, and 

 along a light trellis in the roof, so as to 

 afford an agreeable shade in the open 

 space ; while the angular shape of the 

 stages, and the manner in which they are 

 placed so as to intersect each other, 

 allows ample space for walking between 

 them. In the alcove, at one end of the 

 house are placed a table and chairs, and a small cheffonier, or a set of 

 book-cases. 



