Riistic Adornments. 
of heating is indispensable. It is true, a few very fine plants may be kept 
in conservatories without the aid of heat in winter, especially when in close 
connection with the warm walls of a dwelling-house; but for weeks together 
these are cheerless places, and there is at least some risk of loss in the 
event of sudden and severe frost occurring when the plants are not yet as 
CONSERVATORY LEADING FROM DWELLING-HOUSE. 
dry and dormant as they should be to endure it. For the heating there is 
nothing to be thought of but hot water, and if this part of the work is well 
done there need be no fear of loss in winter, and in the dullest days of the 
dreary season the winter garden will prove as tempting for its genial temperature 
as for its beauty and scientific interest. For heating structures up to 20 feet 
by 10 feet in extent hot-water apparatus heated by gas or oil may be employed 
