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tures will be the free admission of light, if plants are to be 

 grown in the house. But if intended only for flowering 

 plants, light is not so much an object. Liberal provision 

 should also be made for ventilation at the sides and in the 

 roof and a proper command of heat will be absolutely requi- 

 site. The best aspect would be southeast or southwest. 



Although having a conservatory thus within, as it were, 

 the walls of a dwelling makes it delightfully accessible at all 

 seasons and gives a pleasant object through one of the draw- 

 ing-room or library windows when it is thus entered, yet the 

 only kind of structure that can consistently be built in such 

 a situation will not be fit for growing plants in; and unless 

 an additional plant house be possessed or an adequate num- 

 ber of pits and frames to maintain a perpetual supply of 

 blooming plants, a house of a different character in another 

 position will be highly desirable. 



A conservatory that communicates directly with one of 

 the chief entertaining rooms is sometimes found objection- 

 able on account of admitting dampness, an earthy smell, 

 or the odors from fumigation by tobacco. It is therefore 

 generally better to connect them by a glass corridor or 

 interpose a small ante-room, museum, or sculptor-room 

 between them and the drawing-room, or remove them still 

 further from the house and approach them by a covered wg.y. 

 It is no doubt very agreeable, where there is a suite of rooms 

 terminating in a conservatory, to be able to open them to 

 the latter at night, for the purposes of an entertainment. 

 But it must be remembered where gas is used that this is 

 highly injurious to plants, and often causes them to throw 

 ofT all their flower buds. 



When a corridor separates the conservatory from the house 

 it affords an opportunity for making a difference of level 

 between the two points. And a conservatory that is two or 



