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HO USE & GARDEN 
This type of lean-to attached to the southern exposure 
of a house in Massachusetts, opens both indoors and 
out and consumes comparatively little fuel 
By attaching the greenhouse and garage economy in 
heat and service is obtained. Further economy is 
found in making the two a unit with the house 
ed and lighted piazzas arranged like con¬ 
servatories, where, when space permits, 
card parties and dances are also given. 
Not only do greenhouse-conservatories 
form part of numberless modern dwellings, 
but they are welded into their architecture 
by still a new feature: an extension roof 
from the wall of the house, as though a 
gallery ran along one side the flower-filled 
room. This roof serves as a rest to the 
eyes from too bright a light and supplies 
a shade from too ardent sunshine. 
The average person who plans a green¬ 
house seeks economy, and location has 
much to do with this. A sunny hollow of¬ 
fers the best site. In such a situation the 
house is protected from north winds so that 
less artificial heat is required for it. The 
plants, too, are not so likely to be subjected 
to sudden changes of temperatures. And, 
where garage and greenhouse form a unit 
in the landscape, a hollow offers that archi¬ 
tectural seclusion desirable for a garage, 
which should never obtrude itself upon the 
attention. 
A Japanese tea room in a 
house at Dalton, Pa., 
opens directly into the 
conservatory-a test of 
its livableness 
Conservatories should be 
placed in a hollow in 
such a position as to af¬ 
ford the plants the east 
and west sun 
This lean-to, with garage, 
has proved serviceable 
on the country estate of 
M rs. Frances Hodgson 
Burnett 
A house with its gable ends to the north 
and south affords the best exposure for 
plants as they thus obtain all the east and 
