. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ers double the strength requisite, and sash-barsat less than half the distance apart they now are ;these, along with some improvements in ventilation,are usually met with in houses of modern construction, of glass: no reasonable expense was spared ; theworkmanship was as good as it could be, but yellowdeal was used ; and at the present time the whole lotis in such a dilapidated condition that they cannot befurther repaired, being held from falling by props andstays in every direction, despite which t
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ers double the strength requisite, and sash-barsat less than half the distance apart they now are ;these, along with some improvements in ventilation,are usually met with in houses of modern construction, of glass: no reasonable expense was spared ; theworkmanship was as good as it could be, but yellowdeal was used ; and at the present time the whole lotis in such a dilapidated condition that they cannot befurther repaired, being held from falling by props andstays in every direction, despite which they are in dangerof falling, and very soon will fall down can be no greater mistake than the use of timberfor garden structures that is deficient in resin, parti-cularly when they are to be used for Orchids and otherstove plants, where a moist atmosphere has to be allbut continuously kept up. This is the more obviousfrom the fact that the most durable Titch Pine costslittle if anything more than the perishable wood wespeak of, only that the labour in construction where the. Fin. 100. —VIEW IN THE GROUNDS AT DUNORLAN. (SEE P. 5->6.) The Storm of October 14 appears to havebeen felt not only in this country but throughoutNorthern and Central Europe. Many accountsof its destructiveness have reached us, some ofwhich are given elsewhere. Hothouse Materials. — Before Sir j Robert Peel let light lull and unrestricted into theidwellings of the British householder, hothouses andgreenhouses were looked upon as more expensiveI luxuries than they are now-a-days. So far as extentI in the erection of glass structures for garden pur-; poses, there has been progress such as few couldhave anticipated; many also have been the im-I provemenls that have taken place in the construe-1 tion of glass erections for the various garden pur-poses ; these now do duty in a like manner with But there are some things—and these of no slight im-portance—wherein there is frequently to
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