388 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



green-house will be found preferable. Whenever either 

 the conservatory, or green-house is of moderate size, and 

 intended solely for private recreation^ we would in every 

 case, when such a thing is not impossible, have it attached 

 to the house ; communicating by a glass door with the 

 drawing-room, or one of the living rooms. Nothing can 

 be more gratifying than a vista in winter through a glass 

 door down the walk of a conservatory, bordered and 

 overhung with the fine forms of tropical vegetation, 

 golden oranges glowing through the dark green foliage, 

 and gay corollas lighting up the branches of Camelhas, 

 and other floral favorites. Let us add the exulting song cf 

 a few Canaries, and the enchantment is complete. How 

 much more refined and elevated is the taste which prefers 

 such accessories to a dwelling, rather than costly furniture, 

 or an extravagant display of plate ! 



The best and most economical form for a conservatory 

 is a parallelogram — the deviation from a square being 

 greater or less according to circumstances. When it is 

 joined to the dwelling by one of its sides (in the case of 

 the parallelogram form), the roof need only slope in one 

 way, that is from the house. When one of the ends of the 

 conservatory joins the dweUing, the roof should slope both 

 ways from the centre. The advantage of the junction in 

 the former case, is, that less outer surface of the conser- 

 vatory being exposed to the cold, viz. only a side and two 

 ends, less fuel will be required ; the advantage in the latter 

 case is, that the main walk leading down the conserva- 

 tory will be exactly in the line of the vista from the 

 drawing-room of the dwelling. 



It is, we hope, almost unnecessary to state, that the root 

 .if a conservatory, or indeed any other house where plants 



