PART VI. 



ORNAMENTAL 



GARDENING. 



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fire places, the hardiest green-house plants may be grown ; and 

 in those nearest them, succulents, and even dry stove plants, 

 will thrive. Vines may also be trained up a few of the rafters', 

 and ornamental creepers or climbers on the rest. Standard 

 peaches, cherries, figs, &c. may be grown ; which, besides their 

 gay effect in spring, and the beauty of their fruits, which are al- 

 ways most numerous on these trees when grown as standards,, 

 communicate also an umbrose appearance which is a great ac- 

 quisition to a conservatory. When these trees become of too 

 great magnitude, and when myrtles, mimosas, and other exotics, 

 are large enough to supply their place, they may then be taken 

 out or removed. And if a little fruit be still wanted, some of 

 these trees in pots can easily be introduced in spring, and taken 

 out as soon as the fruit is gathered. By paving the bottom of the 

 pits or beds in this conservatory, and placing above the pave- 

 ment a stratum of gravel six inches in thickness, and above that 

 three inches of green moss, and then the soil, the whole house, 

 except the plants in pots (and these ought to be few), may be 



to be shewn ; those of all the bed-rooms on the south side being to come down to the 

 floor, and looking entirely into the conservatory, which will also derive heat from their 

 fire-places. The bed-rooms and dining-rooms may be wholly heated at any time 

 by opening the windows and admitting the air of the conservatory. The greater 

 part of the house externally is to be covered with ivy and other creepers, which will 

 give the whole a singular and romantic appearance, and distinguish it from the 

 tasteless cottages and villas which abound every where in the neighbourhood of 

 London, the productions of meagre fancy or whimsical novelty. 



