The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. 3.—Section of Fig. 4.—Section of Plant Stove. one of the latter could be converted into two of the former of oppositeaspects by a divisional wall along the centre. Except where spacedoes not permit a span-roofed building to be introduced, a lean-tois not to be recommended; but a house of this class may often begreatly improved by adonting a half-span or hipped roof—that is,one with a short slope behind and a longer in front. Where the cultivation of large specimens has to be carr
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. 3.—Section of Fig. 4.—Section of Plant Stove. one of the latter could be converted into two of the former of oppositeaspects by a divisional wall along the centre. Except where spacedoes not permit a span-roofed building to be introduced, a lean-tois not to be recommended; but a house of this class may often begreatly improved by adonting a half-span or hipped roof—that is,one with a short slope behind and a longer in front. Where the cultivation of large specimens has to be carried on, aspan-roofed house of greater height and larger dimensions maysometimes prove useful; but space for this class of plants maygenerally be secured in a house of the smaller elevation, simply bylowering or removing altogether the staging erected for smallerplants, and allowing the larger ones to stand on or nearer the Plant Stove differ* in no respect from the greenhouse exceptin having a greater extent of hot-water pipes for the purpose ofsecuring a greater degree of heat, although, as the plants in stov
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