Le Jardin Fleuriste de la Ville de Paris. 



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precious of the variegated Pelargoniums, &c., being of course in 

 the houses ; but the great mass of bedding stuff is grown in this 

 way in miles of cheap framing. There is no 

 means of heating these otherwise than by the 

 leaves; and as it would in any case be very 

 desirable to accumulate a goodly store of leaf- 

 mould, that means is anything but expensive. 



The foregoing is a very common method for 

 protecting plants in France, and this description 

 of it was written early in the spring of 1867. 

 But things are only beginning at La Meutte, 

 from what we hear of future glasshouse buildings. 

 The municipality have arranged to build sixty 

 more of them in this really excellent town- 

 garden. Apart altogether from this series, a 

 number of houses were erected at La Muette 

 during the past summer, which materially en- 

 croach upon the space occupied by the rough 

 framing alluded to. These houses are especially 

 intended for bedding plants, and are so well 

 adapted for that end that some details about 

 them may be useful. They have been designed 

 on an excellent plan for the culture of bedding 

 plants, raising of seedlings, &c., growth of 

 seedling palms, and in a word, of all dwarf 

 plants. I have seen a good many houses de- 

 voted to similar purposes in all parts of these 

 islands, but never in public, private, or com- 

 mercial garden anything so complete in its way 

 as the block of houses, of which Fig. 20 repre- 

 sents part of the end view. They are low, and 

 rather narrow, so that all operations may be con- 

 ducted from the central pathway. 



They are, cheaply made of thin iron, and the 

 roof consists of one sash at each side. Many of 



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