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ing-room in all weathers by means of a glazed cor- 

 ridor. The cost of such a design as this, though of 

 course more than that of the preceding, -wiU, owing 

 to the principle of construction, he found moderate 

 for the suhstantial and chaste appearance produced. 



Olazed Corridors or Passages — Conserva- 

 tories, of whatever form or size, are, in fact, rohhed 



beautiful than the far more pretentious plant-house 

 to which they lead. By some such contrivance the 

 conservatory proper— that is, the house mainly de- 

 voted to the artistic display of plants in hloom— 

 should he brought within easy and comfortable reach 

 of the, drawing or sitting-room in aU weathers. Such 

 charming resorts, pleasing at aU times, are doubly 

 enjoyable when the weather without is so wet and 



Fig. 23.— A Semi-attached Domed Consebvatobt. 



of full half their charms when they are detached 

 from the dweUing-house, their usefulness decreasing 

 as their distance from the dwelling-house increases. 

 Even in the case of large conservatories or green- 

 houses, such as Fig. 24, which structural, cultural, or 

 other reasons may require to be removed to a con- 

 siderable distance, glass verandahs or glazed pas- 

 sages, from four to six or more feet wide, according 

 to their length, are iuvaluable as connecting links 

 between the dweUing-house and the conservatories. 

 Such structures, skilfully clothed with climbers, and 

 furnished with a single row of well-grown plants on 

 one or both sides, not unfrequently become more 



inclement as to render out-of-door exercise unplea- 

 sant or impossible. 



Large Conservatories. — As these are nearly 

 always built to skilled designs or under sldlled super- 

 intendence, it would be useless to enter into any 

 detail about them. But one general remark should be 

 made. "Whereas in most of the smaller conserva- 

 tories and green-houses, convenience and capacity of 

 storage are the chief considerations, in larger houses 

 some dignity and grandeur of appearance are im- 

 peratively caUed for by good taste ; and a certain 

 amount of direct ornament may add to this, without 



