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green-house will be found preferable. Whenever either 
the conservatory or green-house is of moderate size, and 
intended solely for private recreation, we would in every 
case, when such a thing is not impossible, have it attached 
to the house ; communicating by a glass door with the 
drawing-room, or one of the living rooms. Nothing can 
be more gratifying than a vista in winter through a glass 
door down the walk of a conservatory, bordered and 
overhung with the fine forms of tropical vegetation, 
golden oranges glowing through the dark green foliage., 
and gay corollas lighting up the branches of Camellias - , 
and other floral favorites. Let us add the exulting song cf 
a few Canaries, and the enchantment is complete. How 
much more refined and elevated is the taste which prefers 
such accessories to a dwelling, rather than costly furniture, 
or an extravagant display of plate ! 
The "best and most economical form for a conservatory 
is a parallelogram — the deviation from a square being 
greater or less according to circumstances. When it is 
joined to the dwelling by one of its sides (in the case of 
the parallelogram form), the roof need only slope in one 
way, that is from the house. When one of the ends of the 
conservatory joins the dwelling, the roof should slope both 
ways from the centre. The advantage of the junction in 
the former case, is, that less outer surface of the conser- 
vatory being exposed to the cold, viz. only a side and two 
ends, less fuel will be required ; the advantage in the latter 
case is, that the main walk leading down the conserva- 
tory will be exactly in the line of the vista from the 
drawing-room of the dwelling. 
It is, we hope, almost unnecessary to state, that the root 
of a conservatory, or indeed any other house where plants 
