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PICTURESQUE AND GARDEXESQUE SCENERY IX HOTHOUSES AXD CONSERVATORIES. 
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The stream of water should euter at one end among the trees, and wind to the centre, as it appears 
in the accompanying design* — at the other extremity it should, in a similar manner, turn among the 
trees, and find its exit at a concealed point, leaving the centre of each end free for the rock-work entrance 
and exit. The water could be warmed to the necessary temperature by pipes passing over the general 
heating apparatus previous to entering the building. 
The object of the following design is to show how, in quite another style to the one above described, 
a conservatory may be made highly decorative, so as to produce a more gardenesque effect than is usual. 
In the first place, the walks are intended to be of fine gravel instead of the chilly and ungardenlike tile 
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floor generally used. Secondly, the centre part of the building, instead of being choked up with tall 
shrubs and trees, is to be kept spaciously open, low-growing plants only being placed in the ground 
as in a flower-bed, in the central compartments. These plants are to be brought from a reserve 
house when in perfection, and removed in succession as they get past their best, their places being filled 
with fresh ones. The side walks, which cannot be shown in the drawing are to have a bank next the glass 
filled with plants in flower, like those of the central beds, and these walks are likewise to be of line 
garden gravel. The plants in the vases, &c, arc intended likewise to be removed continually, the only 
permanent ones being the palms and larger shrubs planted in the ground in the central and most lofty 
compartment of the building, and the climbing plants attached to the supports and the roof.' Large seats, 
of bold design, cither of stone or of wood painted stone-colour, should be placed at certain distances 
apart, and a well designed circular scat is meant to extend all round the group of aloes and other 
plants in the centre. 
A spacious and pleasant promenade might llius be arranged, which, in wet weather, would be no 
contemptible substitute for the garden itself, while, during four or five months of the year, it would form 
a inwjiirdni cPhiver, to which a covered passage might be constructed from some conveniently situated 
room, which can be visited from the house without passing into the open air. 
• The roof of this building is not intended as a model for execution,— being merely a rough sketch Introduced to exhibit the 
interior arrangement. 
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