. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. GRE 272 GRE Fig. houses, the above method of heating will be found quite sufficient. Where very large structures are required to be heated, any additional quantity may be procured by means of hot water- pipes supplied from a boiler placed within the patent stove. The pipes may be conveyed in a different direction from the hot-air flue. The boiler, al- though heated with the stove-furnace, requires no additional ;—Gard. Chron. On a larger scale is the green-house at Kew; but as the same principles and arrangements may be adopted on a
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. GRE 272 GRE Fig. houses, the above method of heating will be found quite sufficient. Where very large structures are required to be heated, any additional quantity may be procured by means of hot water- pipes supplied from a boiler placed within the patent stove. The pipes may be conveyed in a different direction from the hot-air flue. The boiler, al- though heated with the stove-furnace, requires no additional ;—Gard. Chron. On a larger scale is the green-house at Kew; but as the same principles and arrangements may be adopted on a smaller scale, I give the following ex- tracts from the details published by Dr. Lindley:— " The general arrangement is excel- ent. None of the door-ways are placed in direct continuation of the walls ; but they are either formed immediately op- posite the principal masses of plants, or obliquely with respect to the walks ; so that the eye necessarily rests upon the foliage as 6oqn as the house is entered. " Then, again, at the point where the houses join each other, a semicircular stage is thrown forward, by which the disagreeable effect of a long narrow walk, in a small house, is completely removed. " The house is span-roofed, and illus- trates the great advantage of this kind of construction over the wretched lean- tos, which were formerly in fashion. We need not say that one of the ad- vantages of a span-roofed house is, that plants are exposed to light in all direc- tions : but, all-important as is that pro- perty, it by no means forms the only valuable feature in them. Plants can be easily reached and easily removed ; the appearance of the interior is very much improved, and no space is wasted. In a common glass shed, at least one half is useless—that is to say, the whole of that part which is next the back wall. Here, on the contrary, every portion of the interior, except the walks, is ren- dered available. " The construction of the roof is exc
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