664- Design far a small Green-house or Conservatory. 



Art. VII. Design for a small Green-house or Conservatory. 

 By T. T. 



Sir, 



Thinking it not improbable that the enclosed particulars 

 of a small green-house, or conservatory, might furnish some 

 hints to such of your readers as may be desirous of adding 

 that agreeable appendage to their residences at a reasonable 

 expense, I shall make no apologies for forwarding them to you. 

 There are many who forego this luxury on account of the usual 

 cost of buildings of this kind, when they are ornamental enough 

 to be attached to a house, and also large enough to contain a 

 sufficient variety of plants to look gay throughout the major 

 part of the year. Having found the one, of which I now send 

 you a sketch (Jig. 127.), to answer the latter purpose, with 

 merely the assistance of two or three common two-light frames, 

 I do not hesitate to recommend something similar, where the 

 power may be wanting to erect the costly and magnificent 

 building given in Vol. II. p. 170. of your Magazine. My 

 humble one is within the scope of most persons : it was built 

 and fitted up entirely by a common bricklayer and carpenter 

 from an adjoining small village, and cost between 250/. and 

 2601. I do not here include the expense of heating it, both 

 because the new method by hot water has superseded mine, 

 and because the cockle which heats it warms, through a sepa- 

 rate main flue, the lower rooms, passages, staircase, and entrance 

 of my residence. It answers, however, the double purpose 

 extremely well, and as far as it creates a constant flow of pure 

 air from without, by introducing it through a large flue, has 

 that advantage over any plan which only heats the air already 

 in the green-house. I may also observe, that there is an ad- 

 vantage attached to the present plan, which may be a recom- 

 mendation to such as may be occupying houses for only a 

 limited period : all the roof-lights, side-lights, and doors, con- 

 sisting of movable frames ; and the only expensive articles, 

 which are the lead-gutters, lead-ridges, and cast-iron pillars, 

 being still valuable when the house may be dismantled ; the 

 loss upon removal could not be great. 



Fig. 123. is the ground plan, of which a a a are three doors, 

 each dividing in the middle ; and, being hung upon Collinge's 

 patent hinges, they are lifted on and off with the greatest ease. 

 The letters b are so many Gothic lights, resembling the doors. 

 (Jig. 126.) The letters c are cast-iron pipes, conducting the 

 rain-water from the roof-gutters into the drains (d d), which 

 carry it into the tank (f). The letters e are beds containing 

 soil of the quality best suited to their respective plants. The 



