276 Gardening Under Glass 



factory; or it is a general laboratory attached to 

 the garden, where plants are propagated, nursed 

 to health when sick, and wintered if tender, and 

 grown for use in the dwelling; or it is an indoor 

 garden with all that the term implies of a place 

 in which to loiter as well as to potter about — a 

 place of real charm and beauty as well as a suit- 

 able home for the plants which grow therein. 

 In this last character it may be more a conserva- 

 tory than a greenhouse, although a conservatory 

 is not, strictly speaking, to be regarded in the 

 same way as a greenhouse, since it affords a home 

 only for plants grown elsewhere and brought 

 into it for show. 



Some of the elaborate winter gardens are of 

 this type as well, being planned to be continually 

 filled from growing houses built for the purpose. 

 But the garden under glass is not of necessity 

 carried on in this double fashion since plants 

 will grow in it even as they grow out of doors in 

 the outdoor summer garden if it is planned to 

 that end. For the fullest enjoyment of a garden 

 enthusiast there is no doubt that this is the better 

 choice, since the varied operations of both gar- 

 dens may then be carried on supplementally and 

 a variety of effects be enjoyed — not identical 

 with each other, by any means, but along parallel 

 lines. 



