282 FLOWER GARDEN. 
having the mould shaken from their roots, may be repot- 
ted and shifted repeatedly during the summer and autumn. 
BOTANICAL STRUCTURES. 
Guazep houses for the reception and culture of exotic 
plants, though sometimes placed in connection with similar 
structures in the forcing department, are now almost uni- 
versally regarded as appendages of the flower garden. In 
the hands of architects they have assumed a great variety 
of forms, and too often has practical utility been sacrificed 
to architectural taste. We shall confine ourselves to the 
exhibition of the principle of the most important of these, 
and shall limit our remarks to the Green-house, Conserva- 
tory, and the Stove. 
The Green-house is intended to afford a winter and 
partly a summer shelter to the less tender classes of exotic 
plants grown in pots. The annexed wood cut exhibits the 
Fig. 17. 
old-fashioned dean-to green-house. The general. form of 
the house is that of a vinery, with pretty lofty. front 
