72 Le Jar din Fleuriste de la Ville de Paris. 



pipes passing round the interior, and thus, while space is not 

 curtailed, the van is efficiently heated, and tender plants can be 



conveyed by it in safety in 

 the depth of winter. 



The largest series of houses 

 grouped together for the 

 culture of house plants gene- 

 rally, and the stock inter- 

 mediate in size between the 

 dwarf and bedding plants in 

 the low houses and the tall 

 palms and like subjects ar- 

 ranged in great iron con- 

 servatories, are arranged on 

 precisely a similar ground- 

 plan to the low range before 

 described, but are very fine 

 and lofty curvilinear houses. 

 Entering from the Avenue 

 d'Eylau, one of the first 

 things you meet with is a 

 magnificent block of curvi- 

 linear span-roofed houses 

 ten in a mass, divided by 

 a narrow covered way 

 which you enter, and 

 through which only you 

 communicate with the 

 houses which it divides 

 five on each side, These 

 contain a vast amount of 

 interest and a great number 

 of rare and new plants. 

 One is the largest and most 

 perfect propagating-house I 



