PEACH-HOUSE. 



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cast-iron, as are also the 

 ventilators, both at front and 

 back. The principal fault 

 we have to this house is, that 

 the front trellis is too far from 

 the glass ; and this mistake has 

 been fallen into to avoid shad- 

 ing the bottom part of the 

 back wall, the least important 

 part of the whole house. The 

 back part of the front trellis 

 ought to have been much 

 higher than is represented in 

 the figure. 



The accompanying dia- 

 grams, figs. 478 to 492, show 

 the details of a range of glass 

 recently erected in the splen- 

 did gardens of the Duke of 

 Sutherland at Trentham. The 

 conception of this novel and 

 ingenious design, as well as 

 the execution of the same, is 

 entirely due to Mr Fleming, 

 who has so long and so credit- 

 ably superintended the hor- 

 ticultural department at this 

 princely establishment. It is 

 difficult to determine under what denomi- 

 nation these elegant structures should be 

 classed — whether they should be called 

 hothouses, glass corridors, &c. Their ob- 

 ject, however, is to secure abundant crops 

 of peaches, cherries, plums, apricots, and 

 grapes, or similar fruits, at a much less cost 

 than the huge and expensive glass houses in 

 general use. They possess, besides utility, 

 other merits, of which elegance in appear- 

 ance is not the least. Fig. 478 shows a 

 portion of the ground-plan ; fig. 479 the 

 elevation, showing alternate sashes open. 

 Figs. 480 and 481 show the rack and 

 pinion at the centre of the structure, by 

 which the opening and shutting of the 

 front sashes is effected — by turning which 

 at the centre, without moving from the 

 spot, the whole of the movable front 

 sashes are acted upon simultaneously, 

 while, as will be seen by the transverse 

 section, fig. 483, the operator has only 

 to turn himself round, and by a turn 

 or two of the handle, d, elevate or 

 depress the whole of the sashes along 

 one side of the roof;— thus admitting 

 ventilation to any extent, with the least 

 possible amount of trouble, and with 

 the greatest degree of accuracy. 



VOL. I. 



Fig. 478. 



Fig. 479. 



482 is the end elevation, showing door- 

 way, and also the end rafter con- 

 necting the upright hollow columns 

 with the brick wall behind. Fig. 483 is 



Fig. 480. 





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