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appears to be no object, they do not forget to 
throw a good deal of cost into certain features 
which are no improvements, and which add 
no single advantage to the concern. By 
adopting circular forms and domes, by arrang- 
ing designs so as to cause irregular cutting 
for the glass, by bringing in subjects out of 
the usual size, and using material that is diffi- 
cult to procure or work, it is very easy to 
swell the cost of anything ; and it becomes 
simply a question of a great expenditure or 
none, for the party who wishes to build ; and 
often ends in their declining altogether to have 
anything of the kind erected. 
Let us, then, see how economically we can 
build a greenhouse and a conservatory, and 
we will reduce the thing to lines and figures, 
so that our readers may add the cost of carry- 
ing material, and of the labour on the spot, to 
put them together, and so see how much it 
would cost them ; or they may find builders 
on the spot, to complete the whole, without 
having any portion from London. 
There are to be had many carpenters who 
are clever at such work, and who will execute 
the woodwork of any of these buildings at one 
shilling per foot. Suppose, therefore, we calcu- 
late that a lean-to greenhouse, Fig. 1, has three 
Fig. 1. 
feet of woodwork upright in front, and two 
six-feet lights from back to front, and three 
feet six inches wide, and that there be ten of 
these lights side by side to make the length of 
the house, which would then be thirty-seven 
feet. Suppose the tops are sloped so as to 
give us ten feet for the depth of the house, 
there would then be, three times 37 feet, 
(111) for the upright front, and twelve times 
37 feet (444) for the roof, and say sixty feet 
for each end (120). The doors will add about 
20 feet. "We now get at the total number of 
feet, which is 695, which number of shillings, 
thirty-four pounds fifteen shillings, gives us 
the carpenter's work. We will reckon the 
glazing of the roof, or 444 feet, at 4|fZ. — 
eight pounds three shillings and twopence, 
and the rest of the glass, 231 at 8d. — seven 
pounds fourteen shillings. There would be 
wanting the price of the bricklayer's work 
only to complete this building, this depending 
a little upon the price of the material in the 
locality, for sometimes the distance the bricks 
have to be drawn makes a good deal of differ- 
ence ; but the height of the brickwork, say 
eighteen inches in the ground, and two feet 
six out of the ground, together four feet, 
with the ends fifty-seven feet in length. This 
should be nine-inch work ; say it will cost ten 
pounds, making sixty pounds, and under 
sixty-one. The heating of a house like this 
would require a conical boiler, say three 
pounds ; and eighty feet of pipe, at eighteen 
pence, six pounds ; and fixing, say two 
pounds more. Here, then, is a first-rate range 
of greenhouses, thirty-seven feet long and ten 
feet wide, for about seventy pounds, as hand- 
some as it can be built, and all complete. A con- 
servatory, Fig. 2, the same length and double 
the width, and with glass to the bottom, may be 
reckoned at double the sum, and no one could 
doubt of the effective appearance of this style 
of building for both. The annexed sketches 
of a greenhouse and conservatory will give an 
idea of the buildings alluded to in the foregoing 
notice. The prices mentioned are quite the 
outside, and include all the fastenings, hinges, 
and necessary means of heating. The filling 
up of the inside is so completely a matter of 
taste, that it is impossible to say what would 
be the cost, until the intended plan is known. 
The best way to fit up a greenhouse is with a 
