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THE PRACTICAL riARDENER. 



on it sufficiently near the glass, thus forming the walk into a 

 deep alley : the person walking in it having a nan'ow border 

 of the finer and smaller plants on the one hand, and a bank 

 of the more common and larger kinds on the other; than 

 which, when the plants are healthy and thriving, few scenes 

 can be more pleasing."' 



The same author further observes: If a green-house must 

 necessarily be attached to a wall, or other building, it might 

 be constructed very much as above ; with this dillerence, hav- 

 ing one of the ends, as it were, cut off, in which case it should 

 be placed with its circular end south, or towards that point, 

 and the sides pointing east and west." This he considers " as 

 the second-best constructed green-house, and in which, ex- 

 cepting in the above-described house, the plants would enjoy 

 the fullest share of sun and light." 



Many very complete green-houses are to be met with, the 

 construction of which differs little from that of hot-houses in 

 general, and not^nthstanding all that has been said against 

 their appearance, we find plants cultivated in them equal to 

 those in houses of more fantastic forms. Of this description 

 of house, many good examples may be seen even amongst 

 the nursery-gardens round London. That of the large house 

 for New-Holland plants in the Clapton nursery, and several 

 in the nursery of Mr. Colvil, whose houses, taken as a whole, 

 with slight modifications, would not disgrace the groimds of 

 the most princely place in the kingdom, may be given as 

 examples. 



The Heath-House, or Heathery, is a plant structure, solely 

 dedicated to the cultivation of the beautiful flimily Erica. It re* 

 quires to be as transparent as possible, situated so as to derive 

 the greatest degree of sun-shine, and rendered capable of being 

 thoroughly ventilated at all favorable seasons. Examples ot 

 this kind of structure are to be met with at Bothwell Castle, 

 Wobiu-n Abbey, &c. ; at both places fine collections are kept 

 up, although the house at the lasi-noticed place is badly con- 

 structed ; and, amongst plant culti\ itors, that of Mr. ]\Iackay's^ 

 at Clapton, may be considered as very complete. The leading 

 features in the construction of tliis kind of house aie. the 



