CONSERVATORIES, GREENHOUSES, VINERIES AND FRUIT HOUSES. 



This compost ground is usually an ugly place and the sheds against the back wall Compost 

 of the range of glass are hideous, but there is no reason whatever why this should be ground. 

 so. If they are made with a solid wooden framing treated with Stockholm tar and 

 roofed with pan tiles of a nice colour, the latter may be neat and agreeable to look 

 upon, while the provision of brickwork bins for composts, etc., will keep the rest tidy, 

 and a neatly clipped hedge with a pretty gate may surround the whole. 



A water supply throughout the range is important. In each house there should Water 

 be a tank of galvanized iron placed under the staging for dipping watering cans into, su PPh'- 



FIG. 289. RANGE OF GLASSHOUSES, AT HOLEHIRD, WIN'DERMERE. 



and kept filled by a ball valve. This is far better than drawing from the tap direct, 

 as the water standing in the tank has the chill taken off it before use. There should, 

 however, also be a stand-pipe in each house to connect the hose to for floor washing, 

 etc. The same supply would also, of course, be laid on to the supply cistern of the 

 heating apparatus, and a tap over a little stoneware sink in the potting shed is also 

 very useful. 



In the accompanying illustrations are shown plans and examples of ranges of glass 

 varying in capacity and design, to accompany garden projects of corresponding extent. 



RflNCL OF PLANT 

 HOUSES & VINERIES 

 IN 



T E BRACE 



WALK 



FIG. 290. 



The first (111. No. 298) is a complete and self-contained scheme at Wych Cross 

 Place, Sussex, designed and carried out for Douglas W. Freshfield, Esq., as was every- 

 thing on this estate, in a complete and consummate manner, in conjunction with the 

 gardener's cottage and the bothy. The sense of unity and compactness observed here is 

 not always attainable in remodelling existing grounds, and is often lacking even in new 

 estates, where disconnectedness and diffusion are inexcusable. The noticeable points in this 

 scheme, which gives the principle which should always be kept in view, is the centralized 

 position of the heating chamber, thus obviating waste of heat, and the ease with which 

 the head gardener can supervise everything at any hour of the day or night. 



Examples 

 of ranges 

 of glass. 



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