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and the effect is very good. In Badeslade's 

 view of Sundridge Place, in Kent (1720), the 

 dove-cote is shown standing in the centre of the 

 fish-pond. The water-floor was 

 occupied by the ducks ; above this 

 was a room with a balcony all 

 round, and steps up from the 

 water ; and the upper part was 

 pierced with holes and perches for the 

 pigeons. A large octagonal wooden 

 dove-cote on a wood trestle is shown p,c. 53. 

 in Logan's view of St. John's, Oxford. 



Hot-houses and orangeries do not seem to 

 have been in use in England till the end of 

 the seventeenth century. One of the earliest 

 hot-houses is described by Olivier de Serres. 

 It was built for the Elector Palatine of Heidel- 

 berg, and appears to have been a nlovable 

 structure formed with great wooden shutters 

 and windows. Evelyn mentions the orangery 

 at Ham House ; but this may have been only 

 a plantation, and perhaps does not refer to the 

 existing orange-house. Neither Worlidge nor 

 London and Wise refer to the subject at all. 

 The first orange-house with a glass roof is said 

 to have been built at Wollaton in 1696. 

 Evelyn, however, writing in 1677, mentions 

 the conservatory at Euston, *' some hundred 

 feete long, adorn'd with mapps, as the other 

 side is with heads of Caesars, all cut in alabaster." 

 In the eighteenth century a good many orange- 



