. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. ORA Citrus aurantium. 404 —?— ORC See ORANGE Citrus. ORANGERY is a green-house or conservatory devoted to the cultivation of the genus Citrus. The best plan for the construction of such a building is that erected at Knowsley Park, and thus described by the gardener, Mr. J. W. Jones. Fig. "Measured inside, this house is four- teen and a half yards long, eight broad, and six high. In the centre of the house are eight borders, in which the oranges, &c, are planted ; these borders are all marked a. The two borders against the back wall
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. ORA Citrus aurantium. 404 —?— ORC See ORANGE Citrus. ORANGERY is a green-house or conservatory devoted to the cultivation of the genus Citrus. The best plan for the construction of such a building is that erected at Knowsley Park, and thus described by the gardener, Mr. J. W. Jones. Fig. "Measured inside, this house is four- teen and a half yards long, eight broad, and six high. In the centre of the house are eight borders, in which the oranges, &c, are planted ; these borders are all marked a. The two borders against the back wall are sixteen inches broad, and three feet deep. The six borders immediately in the centre of the house are fourteen inches broad, and three feet deep; the paths are marked c, the front wall <?, and the back one e; p, p, p, represent orna- mental cast iron pillars, which, besides supporting the roof, serve also to sup- port light wire trellises ; there is one of these pillars in each row for each rafter. The house is entirely heated by smoke flues, two furnaces being placed at /. The dotted lines along the central path show the direction of the flues beneath, from the back to the front entrance, when they diverge, the one entering a raised flue, g, on the right, the other also entering a raised flue on the left. These flues again cross the house at each end, and the smoke escapes by the back wall; it being found incon- venient to place the furnaces in any other situation. " Two stoves immediately connected with each end of the orangery contain the collection of tropical plants bearing fruit. The communication between these stoves and the orangery is unin- terrupted by any glass or other division, so that the orange tribe are subjected to nearly as high a temperature as the tropical plants. The central borders of the orangery, as may be seen in the section, are raised a little above each other, as they recede from the front of the house. The oranges, citrons, &c, a
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