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a walled passage ten feet wide, with glass roof, 

 passing right across the enclosed space from entrance 

 to potting-sheds, and giving covered access to all the 

 service houses. It would have a flagged walk, and 

 borders against the walls for Camellias, Heliotrope, 

 Myrtle, Dcfphne indica, Carpenteria^ Clematis indivisa, 

 the double white Rubus roscefolius, and many another 

 good thing that only wants winter protection. The 

 glass lights of the roof should be taken off in 

 summer. 



To return to the entrance enclosure, there would 

 be partitions right and left leading into large 

 " temperate " spaces. Entering the one on the left 

 there would be some main arrangement of noble 

 foliage of Banana, Orange, Lemon, and white Datura, 

 and of lesser growths of the dwarf Palm of the 

 Mediterranean region, and Maidenhair and other 

 Ferns. All these would be planted and gi'owing in 

 the ground ; both main groups and ground-covering 

 being so disposed that between and among the per- 

 manent plantings, pots of flowering things could be 

 brought in and arranged in wide groupings. 



The further enclosures would advance through an 

 intermediate temperature to that of the " stove." The 

 same principle of arrangement would run through all, 

 of main groups of large foliage, and of beautiful 

 ground- work, both planted. In the warmer houses, 

 and perhaps in a lesser degi-ee in the temperate 

 region, the wall would in places be the background of 



