covered withhoopesand poles,” which poor old Gerarde 
used in his day, ‘wherein to set whatsoever strange 
seedes were ke N unto him from the Indies or any 
other hot region. 
By the use of Steam, the largest conservatories may 
with the greatest ease and certainty be constructed 
and kept to any degree of heat. Thus may the glo- 
rious works of the Almighty be displayed in some 
portion of the magnificence of the Torrid Zone, and 
those plants which are usually kept in a starved and 
mutilated state, en? be Aba displaying their 
f the beholder, 
and electrifying his mind with the noblest ideas of 
Oriental grandeur. 
Nor to the PS WH of Tropical elimates would 
these advantages be confined: they are equally suit- 
What a rich and imposing Vista would be formed by 
a single row on the right hand, and another on the 
left, of the plants of New Holland, The Cape, China, 
and similar "Countries, ‘growing in the full ground, 
and ? There 
too the riens; that charming ever-flowering family, 
sand yards in length, of suitable height and breadth, 
could be heated with ease by one of our boilers: and 
where in the whole world would there be such an en- 
chanting sight? where such a display of the wonders 
of Creating Wisdom and Goodness? Where such an 
opportunity of admiring and adoring the all-bountiful 
Creator, and elevating the mind above itself in grati- 
tude and praise? 
How diminished, how trifling, how childish, before 
