CONSERVATORIES, GREENHOUSES, VINERIES AND FRUIT HOUSES. 



The perspective view (111. No. 293) shows a range of glass erected at The Flagstaff, 

 Colwyn Bay, North Wales, consisting of potting shed with heating chamber under, a 

 corridor and room in which to pack flowers and fruit, palm house (18 feet by 17 feet), 

 early muscat house (27 feet by 16 feet), late vinery (27 feet by 16 feet), and plant house 

 (24 feet by 16 feet). All these glasshouses face due South. Against the wall connecting 

 the lodge and the potting shed are erected early and late peach houses, and projecting 

 from this are two span-roofed houses used for propagating and melon growing. 



The fourth example given (111. No. 290) shows a small but useful range of glass, 

 designed in connection with a formal garden for a Lancashire client, consisting of a 

 plant house which can be used as a conservatory for the display of chrysanthemums or 

 other flowers in bloom, a vinery, which is divided into two compartments, one for 

 Black Hamburgs and the other for Black Alicantes and Lady Downe Seedlings, and, at 

 the end of the vinery, a plant house and stove, each 12 feet wide. Like the first 

 range of glass described, the whole of these houses are in direct connection with the 

 potting shed. 



The fifth example (111. No. 292) represents glass houses on a small scale, erected 

 at Windermere. Here there is a conservatory in the centre, a small stove at one end, 

 and greenhouse at the other. The chimney in this case was not permitted to be near 

 the house ; in preference, therefore, to carrying the pipes in trenches, it was considered 

 more economical to place the boiler near its work at the end of the stove, conducting 

 the smoke through an underground flue to a chimney over the potting shed some 

 forty feet distant. The stoke-hole is completely hidden by placing over it a span- 

 roof pit, which, being visible from almost every portion of the grounds, was made 

 rather more ornamental than is usual. Illustration No. 281 shows a very similar 

 range which embodies in its design some of the best features of the pre-Victorian 

 glasshouse. 



The last illustration (111. No. 294) is of a very simple little greenhouse, calculated 

 to give pleasure to amateurs and ladies interested in gardening. Essentially a "growing 

 house," it is suitable for almost any class of plants ; the requisite amount of piping is 



provided. Where there are no 

 other glass erections, the wisest 

 plan is to use it as a cool house. 

 It is attached to a potting 

 shed and tool house containing 

 a potting bench, the heating 

 chamber being under, with in- 

 dependent boiler and extended 

 hopper feeder, to ensure the fire 



FIG. 294. burning for a long time without 



attention. This little boiler heats 



a 4-inch flow and return pipe passing round the greenhouse, sufficient to keep the 

 temperature at 45 deg. during the Winter months. The staging is 4 feet wide, of 

 fixed lattice on one side, and on the other of slate, which can be removed to allow 

 chrysanthemums being placed on the ground during the period of blooming. 



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