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iron pipes from a boiler placed over the furnace that warms the 

 drawing-room taking from this no heat, and yet abundantly 

 warming the conservatory. An improvement could still farther 

 be made, by having the east end of the conservatory arch over a 

 carriage drive, and thus allow visitors to enter the drawing-room 

 through the conservatory. Exclusive of the delight afforded 

 visitors by this very pleasant addition to a dwelling, it affords a 

 delightful promenade for the ladies of the family, where, while all 

 is wintry without, and walking is unpleasant, even when the ice- 

 bound trees are glittering in the clear sunlight, they may luxu- 

 riate amid roses and jasmines, breathing air redolent with the 

 perfume of daphne and orange flowers, and surrounded with 

 everything that can remind them of the beauty and bland cli- 

 mate of the sunny south. It is much to be hoped, therefore, that 

 the author of "Landscape Gardening," in his next edition of 

 Rural Architecture, will make a conservatory of this character 

 an essential part, a sine qua non, of every residence whose char- 

 acter and style are calculated for a man of wealth. This much 

 we hope for the sake of the proper culture and due appreciation 

 of our favorite flower, the Rose. 



We have occupied so much space with the peculiarities of cul- 

 ture for the forcing-house, that we had almost forgotten that more 

 humble, but no less pleasure-giving mode of WINDOW culture. 

 As this culture is practised chiefly by those who cannot spare the 

 time nor incur the expense of previous preparation, the best mode 

 is that given for late forcing of roses taken up the autumn pre- 

 vious, placing the plants in pots seven inches in diameter, and 

 using a soil composed of equal parts of sand, loam and manure, 

 or peat, loam and manure. They can be watered with manure- 

 water every fortnight, made from the drippings of the barn-yard, 

 or what is more pleasant, a safely weak solution of guano, about 

 one pound to fifteen gallons. 



They should be brought into the heat gradually first into a 

 cold room where there is no frost, and then into the sitting-room, 

 where they can be placed in the window, and turned around 

 every week in order to give each side of the plant its share of light. 



