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THE JARDIN FLETJRISTE AND OTHER 



of houses for growing or storing plants to adopt no other. 

 For graperies with the borders outside it would not be so 

 suitable ; but where good borders are made inside it wouM 

 answer well ; or the vineries or peach-houses might form 

 the outer four houses of each block, leaving the plant- 

 houses, forcing-houses, &c, inside. 



Fig. 52. 



HOUSE FOR YOUNG PLANTS 

 RECENTLY KOOTED. 



PELARGONIUM HOUSE. 



SOLANUM HOUSE. 



BEGONIA HOUSE. 



PROPAGATING HOUSE. 



PELARGONIUM HOUSE. 



CALADIUM AND AHUM HOUSE. 



MIXED COLLECTION HOUSE. 



Flan showing the arrangement of glass houses in the Jardin Fleuriste. 



Plants may be grouped in the passage, where narrow, in 

 half-oval groups between each door. In large places, where 

 money is not an object, and where the houses on each side 

 would be filled with very ornamental specimen plants, it 

 would be a capital plan to make the central passage as wide 

 as one of the houses. Beds may be placed between the 

 doors, in winter garden fashion, and climbers run up the 

 roof, thus converting the passage into a most agreeable 

 promenade. With the better kinds of climbers depending 

 from the roof; a few belts of Oranges and Camellias, 

 and some palms and fine-leaved plants here and there, 

 to lend the scene grace and character, I can fancy 

 nothing more agreeable in the way of winter garden 

 or conservatory, particularly as the varied contents of 

 the houses on each side could be seen through the glass 



