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SECT. IV. 



P A GREEN-HOUSE AND CONSERVATORY 

 COMBINED. 



BESIDES the above-described distinct Green-House 

 and Conservatory, there is a sort of house contrived 

 to answer the purposes of both, and to answer the 

 purses of those who would have the greatest va- 

 riety in this branch of horticulture at the smallest 

 expence. 



Such a house, if it be intended more as a green- 

 luouse than as a conservatory, should be constructed 

 in all respects as the complete green-house above 

 described, with respect to its external appearance, 

 (though varied perhaps in its dimensions,) the si- 

 tuation of the flue, and of the walk. But the space 

 within the walk, occupied by the stage, should be 

 partly converted into a pit for plants, or into two 

 pits for plants, as may be thought best, thus : A pit 

 in the centre, with a semicircular stage at each end, 

 or a pit at each end, with a stage in the centre ; the 

 flue all round to be crib-trellised for heaths, and 

 climbing plants to be trained up the columns, &c. 

 as formerly hinted at. 



But if the house be intended more as a conserva- 

 tory than as a green-house, it should be constructed, 

 internally, as the conservatory described in the last 

 section, with the flue sunk under the walk, and a 

 border between it and the parapet, for small plants ; 



