EBMAEKS UPON PLANT HOUSES, 



REMAEKS UPON PLANT HOUSES. 



ilN the volume devoted to Flowering Plants, we 

 have already described the houses which in our 

 estimation are best adapted for the cultivation 

 of those plants. The same remarks will apply with equal 

 force in the case of plants grown for their foliage, but 

 as some of the readers of the present volume may not 

 be in possession of the book above referred to, it will 

 be advisable to repeat them here. 



There are many forms of houses which may be em- 

 ployed successfully for the growth of the plants which 

 we have now under consid.eration, such as span-roofs, 

 half-spans, curvilinear, and lean-to houses, but the span- 

 roof is undoubtedly the best kind of house, as it affords 

 the plants more light and air, and at the same time 

 may be made to form an ornament in a garden where 

 no other style of house could be tolerated. 



By the above remarks, we do not mean to infer that 

 good plants cannot be grown in any other class of house, 

 because the daily experience of hundreds of amateurs and 

 professional gardeners would flatly contradict such an 

 assertion; but in offering advice, we deem it best to proffer 

 such as our experience points out to be the very best, 

 and that the span-roof is the most to be preferred in 

 houses devoted to plant growing, none will attempt to 

 deny. On the other hand, half-spans and lean-to houses 

 are very useful structures, and handsome specimens can 

 also be grown in them, extra care being necessary in 

 turning the plants round to the light in order to prevent 

 the growths all drawing to one side. Houses of these 



