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inside, would allow a three-foot-wide path of plain 

 stone flags, and a space of two feet on each side for 

 pot and growing plants. The wood and glass-work 

 would rest on the outer edge of a nine-inch wall three 

 feet high, the remaining part of the top of the wall 

 still giving space enough within for the standing of 

 small pots. Climbers and some of the main masses 

 of foliage plants would be planted in the borders. 

 There would be no regular staging, but, excepting 

 those that might be placed on the three-foot wall, the 

 plants would be arranged on the ground, standing 

 the pots on pieces of slate or tile to prevent worms 

 getting in, and raising some of the pots, as the shape 

 of the groups might demand, by standing them on 

 empty ones inverted. 



Many plants would thrive in such a passage, even 

 without artificial heat, or with a lamp-stove for the 

 coldest nights, at any rate in and below the latitude 

 of London. Fuchsia, Clematis indivisa and C. cirrhosa, 

 Cobcea scandens, Passijiora ccerulea, Physianthus aliens, 

 Solanum jasminoides, and Daphne indica would be an 

 ample list from which to choose climbers, while 

 Hydrangeas and several kinds of Fern would do planted 

 out, as a groundwork for flowering plants in pots. 



If the passage was to have a heating system I 

 would have it wider, not less than 11 feet; and in 

 this case the rows of pipes that would pass along by 

 the walls should be hidden by a thin inner wall built 

 as rockwork in cement, leaving rather large openings 



