The American Garden 
flionthly Journal of J^ractical gardening. 
Dr. F. M. HEXAMER, Editor. 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, Publishers. 
Vol. V. 
NEW-YORK, JULY, 1884. 
No. 7. 
PICTURESQUE GREENHOUSES. 
To the artistic arrangomont of greenhouses 
there is yet too little atteutiou given by 
amateur floriculturists. While a mere plant- 
house is built and arranged for the sole pur¬ 
pose of growing plants, the greenhouse 
lai'go and beautiful subtropical plants, which 
could not bo grown well in pots, in a moder¬ 
ate-sized p-eonhouse, may be made to thrive 
to perfection in such a glass-covered garden. 
The hardier Palms, Tree Perns, Bamboos, 
Dracronas, and many other beautiful foliage 
tration shows a very beautiful arrangement 
of this kind, which has been constructed in 
a conservatory near this city. In this case 
the wall was built for the special purpose of 
ornamenting it in this manner. Over the 
niche in the wall tiny streams of fresh 
BIIH l 'il 
m’u- 
proper—the conservatory — should at a 
times present a green and pleasing appeal 
ance instead of the familiar rows of red pots. 
Thepleasui-e that may be derived from a 
glass structure arranged as a miniature gar 
den is infinitely greater than when the 
is given up entirely to potted plants. any 
ORNAMENTED GREENHOUSE WALL, 
and flowering plants can bo grown in a tem¬ 
perate house. 
The end walls of greenhouses present, 
not infrequently, the least inviting part of 
the whole, notwithstanding that there are 
but few instances in which these cannot be 
made a most attractive feature. Our illus- 
water, brought from a spring on, higher 
ground, are constantly trickling, and are 
gathered below in a miniature pond, which 
serves as an aquarium. • On its margins 
various aquatic plants are growing in re¬ 
markable luxuriance, and produce a most) 
striking and magnificent effect. 
