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materially injure it, by being so near its boundary, both in re- 

 spect to culture and effect. 



Conservatories. — These are kept of various temperatures, 

 between that of the dry stove and the open air. They may be 

 constructed of any form, and placed either in a parterre, or ad- 

 joining to, and connected with, the mansion. In them may be 

 grown all kinds of green-house or dry stove plants, and fre- 

 quently fruit trees intermingled with them. In the Treatise on 

 Hot-houses, I have shewn a great variety of ways in which con- 

 servatories or green-houses may be heated from the fires requisite 

 for the house. I shall therefore not repeat any of them here, but 

 refer to Plate XII. fig. 1., which is a plan of a house with a large 

 conservatory and vinery, designed by me for a small place in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of London, where no prospect, or good 

 external views, can be obtained from the windows. The vinery 

 is heated by the fires of the kitchens, and a small dressing or 

 book-room. The conservatory by those of the drawing-room, 

 library, and dining-room. From all these three rooms agree- 

 able perspectives through the conservatory may be obtained, 

 even while sitting at table ; as the dotted lines in the plan serve 

 to shew*. In those parts of the conservatory farthest from the 



* The central part of the principal building is intended to be carried up a consi- 

 derable height, as a tower ; the rest is to be two stories high, with parapets all 

 round, of such a height as to conceal the chimnies. As few windows as possible are 



