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for the graperies, but with only a roof facing the south and a 

 back wall. The new house is upwards of 120 feet long, 

 curving round at each end, and about 15 feet wide ; the ven- 

 tilators are in the front and back walls; pushing outward on 

 hinges in front, and sliding down in a grove on the back. 

 The roof is low, so as to bring the plants as near the glass 

 as possible ; there is a front shelf, three feet wide, a walk, and 

 a stage, the shelves of which are only three or four in num- 

 ber, and about eighteen or twenty inches wide ; this last, we 

 believe, was Mr. Russell's suggestion, and a good one it is. 

 We have always wondered why people wish to hoist their 

 plants up so high that scarcely any thing can be seen but 

 the bottom of the pots : the whole beauty of a plant is to 

 look down upon it ; but in the way in which nearly all green- 

 houses are built, it is rare to find the stages so constructed 

 that the plants can be so arranged. The house is heated by 

 one of the cylindrical boilers just alluded to, and copper 

 pipe, and the apparatus works very well, so far as it has been 

 tried. 



The plants looked finely, though they had been in the 

 house but a few weeks, and had scarcely been arranged in 

 their places; the verbenas were in full bloom, stocky, and 

 pruned into good shape ; the pelargoniums also looked well, 

 considering their treatment in the early part of the season. 

 It will not be until another year, however, before Mr. Russell 

 can have every thing in good condition. A small house for 

 camellias is, we believe, to be added, just in the centre of the 

 range, extending north, with a span roof It will be entered 

 at one end, through a door in the back wall, in the centre of 

 the house now erected. When all is completed, we hope 

 Mr. Russell will give us an account of it, with his opinion 

 of the comparative merits of houses of this construction, and 

 those of the ordinary plan. The cheaper all structures for 

 plants can be erected, provided architectural fitness is not 

 wholly sacrificed to economy, the greater will be the induce- 

 ment to build. Let it be understood that they can be erected 

 for a moderate sum, and hundreds of individuals Avould at 

 once add them to their gardens or dwellings. 



