Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . will require renewaleven before this time. INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OF THE CONSERVATORY. In arranging the interior of the conservatory, it willbe well to use all of the center of the building for largepalms, bananas, bamboos, tree ferns, and other tall-growing plants. Fig. 92. They should be planted inthe ground, and so arranged as to present as natural ana]3pearance as possible. The walks should be of gener-ous widths, and so ar
Greenhouse construction : a complete manual on the building, heating, ventilating and arrangement of greenhouses, and the construction of hotbeds, frames and plant pits . will require renewaleven before this time. INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OF THE CONSERVATORY. In arranging the interior of the conservatory, it willbe well to use all of the center of the building for largepalms, bananas, bamboos, tree ferns, and other tall-growing plants. Fig. 92. They should be planted inthe ground, and so arranged as to present as natural ana]3pearance as possible. The walks should be of gener-ous widths, and so arranged as to bring into view allparts of the house. The portion of the house next tothe walls may be arranged in the same manner as thecenter, but it is desirable to have a portion of it, at least,supplied with tables, ui)on which plants in flower maybe displayed. If they are combined with ferns andornamental-leaved plants the effect will be very is really the jmrpose of a conservatory, since, as isusually the case, if it is kept at a temperature of fifty-five to sixty degrees when plants are brought in from INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OF CONSERVATORY. 173. 174 GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. the stove and otlier warm rooms, the flowers will be con-served, and will last must longer than if kept at a hightemperature. Frequently the large rooms are used forgrowing collections of the more ornamental 2)alms, andare known as palm houses, Fig. 93. THE STOVE HOUSE. As first used, the term stove was ajiplied togreenhouses in which artificial heat was suj^plied bymeans of stoves. As is frequently the case, the name ofthe object became attached to the building in which itwas used, and a stove house to-day is merely a hothousewith a temperature of sixty-five to seventy-five a rule, these are considerably nai-rower and lowerthan the conservatoiies or palm houses. They are scl-
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