CHAPTER 1. 



OF THE SITUATION, POSITION, FORM, AND CONSTRUCTION 

 OF THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



Sect. I. Situation. 



According to our ideas of the enjoyments of the 

 green-house, it is essential that it be situated close to 

 the house ; not merely near, but immediately adjoin- 

 ing ; and attached to it either by being placed against 

 it, forming a part of the edifice ; or by means of a 

 corridore, veranda, or some other description of co- 

 vered passage. The most desirable situation is 

 unquestionably that in which the green-house (fig. 1. 

 Gr.) shall communicate with, and form as it were 



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an additional apartment to the library, or breakfast- 

 parlour. If it communicates by spacious glass 

 doors, and the parlour is judiciously furnished with 

 mirrors, and bulbous flowers in water-glasses, the 

 effect will be greatly heightened, and growth, ver- 



