. The book of the garden. Gardening. PEACH-HOUSE. 353 cast-iron, as are also the ventilators, both at front and back. The principal fault we have to this house is, that the front trellis is too far from the glass; and this mistake has been fallen into to avoid shad- ing the bottom part of the back wall, the least important part of the whole house. The back part of the front trellis ought to have been much higher than is represented in the figure. The accompanying dia- grams, figs. 478 to 492, show the details of a range of glass recently erected in the splen- did gardens of the Duke of Sutherl
. The book of the garden. Gardening. PEACH-HOUSE. 353 cast-iron, as are also the ventilators, both at front and back. The principal fault we have to this house is, that the front trellis is too far from the glass; and this mistake has been fallen into to avoid shad- ing the bottom part of the back wall, the least important part of the whole house. The back part of the front trellis ought to have been much higher than is represented in the figure. The accompanying dia- grams, figs. 478 to 492, show the details of a range of glass recently erected in the splen- did gardens of the Duke of Sutherland at Trentham. The conception of this novel and ingenious design, as well as the execution of the same, is entirely due to Mr Fleming, who has so long and so credit- ably superintended the hor- ticultural department at this princely establishment. It is difficult to determine under what denomi- nation these elegant structures should be classed—whether they should be called hothouses, glass corridors, &c. Their ob- ject, however, is to secure abundant crops of peaches, cherries, plums, apricots, and grapes, or similar fruits, at a much less cost than the huge and expensive glass houses in general use. They possess, besides utility, other merits, of which elegance in appear- ance is not the least. Fig. 478 shows a portion of the ground-plan; fig. 479 the elevation, showing alternate sashes open. Figs. 480 and 481 show the rack and pinion at the centre of the structure, by which the opening and shutting of the front sashes is effected—by turning which at the centre, without moving from the spot, the whole of the movable front sashes are acted upon simultaneously, while, as will be seen by the transverse section, fig. 483, the operator has only to turn himself round, and by a turn or two of the handle, d, elevate or depress the whole of the sashes along one side of the roof;—thus admitting ventilation to any extent, with the least possible amount of trouble, and with th
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