The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . SYON PLANT HOUSES In general shape the plant houses at Syon take the form of a crescenwhich is a decided improvement on the old straight ranges, The centi GARDENS, PARKS, ETC. SYON. (511) of
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . SYON PLANT HOUSES In general shape the plant houses at Syon take the form of a crescenwhich is a decided improvement on the old straight ranges, The centi GARDENS, PARKS, ETC. SYON. (511) of the building, which is broadest, rises into a lofty dome, and the two end houses are also broader and higher than the intermediate parts. The whole of the framework of the roof being formed of light iron bars, and the ends and centre being stone pillars and cornices, while the en- I || tire range stands on a well-finished and raised | I * I stone basement, adorned with handsome vases J |Tdp J«, and urns at either end, the effect of the struc- M-«SUaas!5^^ ture is one of great neatness, and elegance, and richness. Everything about it looks good and substantial, yet light and fitted for its object. And if the length of the range did not demand that, for the sake of proportion, it should be. References to St/on centre division has 17four-inch cast-iron pipes belowthe paths and all The steam from the main. 12. Condensed water two square divisions, ad- i joining the centre one, have 14four-inch pipes round threesides of each. 13. Steam entrance. 14. Vapour valves, for steamingthe house. ; 5- Condensed water Steam entrance. Tbe other curved divisionshave five pipes in front, and I tour at the back of each divi-sion. SYON FLOWER GARDEN. 7. Vapour valves. 8. Condensed water end divisions, forming the extreme wings of the range,have eight pipes all round. 9. Steam entrance. 10. Vapour valves. 11. Condensed water outlet. 12.
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