. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 812 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part single fire heats this house ; the flue goes under the floor round the front and ends, rises and continues above the floor along the back wall, and terminates in a chimney in the centre. Over the stock-hole is placed
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 812 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part single fire heats this house ; the flue goes under the floor round the front and ends, rises and continues above the floor along the back wall, and terminates in a chimney in the centre. Over the stock-hole is placed a cistern, which is supplied from the roof, and occasionally from a pump adjoining, with water, which is conveyed into the green-house by a lead ; {Plans for Green-houses, &c. p. 11.) 6165. The most suitable descriptioji of green-house or conservatory for the fioicer- garden is that with span roof {fig. 568.), because such a house has no visible " hinder parts," back sheds, stock-holes, or other points of ugliness, with which it is difficult to avoid associating all the shed, or lean-to forms of glazed buildings with back walls. Several elegant houses of this description have been erected by Messrs. Bailey. An example occurs in the Regent's Park, at the villa of W. H. Cooper, Esq. ; another at Walthamstowe, in the grounds of P. Kendal, Esq. ; and several more are mentioned in the table already given (1587.), or are in course of erection. 6166. Iti the interior of the green-house the principal object demanding attention is the stage, or platform for the plants. In a double-roofed house, surrounded by a path, the stage generally consists of shelves, rising from the path to the middle of the bouse {fig. 567. a and b); but in a house with a single roof {fig. 569.) it generally rises from the front path to the back, and in both cases the slope of the stage is generally the same or somewhat less than the slope of the roof. In the green-houses destined for ve
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