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THE JARDIN FLEURISTE AND OTHER 



the gutters, strongly lined witli zinc^ are wide, so tliat men 

 can run along them with the greatest ease to protect or 

 shade the houses. The shutters are not taken from between 

 the houses every day, but simply left in piles of ten or so 

 over some unoccupied spot, or if the range happens to be 

 completely filled, each pile is shifted every day so as to 

 prevent the plants beneath from suffering. The facility 

 and simplicity with which these houses may, in a few mi- 

 nutes, be thus encased in wood to meet a very severe 

 frost, and without the least untidiness of any kind, are 

 admirable. However, matters are so arranged in the 

 houses that they could dispense entirely with this pre- 

 caution, which is noticed merely from its adaptability to 

 many places where a great number of bedding plants have 



to be kept, and 

 where the means 

 of heating suffi- 

 ciently to keep 

 _ out very severe 

 frosts are not 

 ~ forthcoming. The 



Fig. 58. 



Portion of ground plan of the bedding-plant houses in 

 the Jardin Fieuriste. 



ground plan of 

 the range is 

 nearly the same 

 as that already 

 described, so that 



the men at work in any of the eighteen houses of the 

 block already completed, may pass and convey plants from 

 one to the other without passing through the open air. 

 Thus the comfort of the men and the health of the plant 

 are both secured. Already nine houses are arranged on 

 each side of the central passage, and it is proposed to 

 continue the arrangement till all the ground previously 

 devoted to framing is covered with this class of house. The 

 visitor, entering at the outer end and continuing his way 

 through any of the houses, would at its further end meet 

 with the covered way running at right angles to it, through 

 which he could enter any of the other houses he wished to 

 see without again exposing himself or opening any doors to 



