. An encyclopædia of gardening; . posed to the suns influence and that of the airand heat: they can be more readily pruned, and correctly trained, watered, and washed;and they occupy less room in proportion to the produce. The trees at Wood Hall, inWest Lothian, some of those at Shipley, and at some places in Devonshire, are trainedin this way. In a very few favorable situations in the South of England, as at Gerstonand Woodville, in Devonshire, they are trained against walls in the open garden. 5928. Plans for OTUvge-houses. These must naturally depend on the mode of growing. For plants inmod
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . posed to the suns influence and that of the airand heat: they can be more readily pruned, and correctly trained, watered, and washed;and they occupy less room in proportion to the produce. The trees at Wood Hall, inWest Lothian, some of those at Shipley, and at some places in Devonshire, are trainedin this way. In a very few favorable situations in the South of England, as at Gerstonand Woodville, in Devonshire, they are trained against walls in the open garden. 5928. Plans for OTUvge-houses. These must naturally depend on the mode of growing. For plants inmoderate-sized pots and boxes, a common green-house is the obvious habitation ; for, being plants of orna-ment, they require merely the treatment of that department. The conservatories in Italy have generallyopaque roofs, but some of the more enlightened nobles of Lombardy have lately erected splendid with glass roofs, in which they combine the culture of the citron tribe with other, large-growingexotics, {jig. 520.). 5929. For trees; in large boxes, a proportionably large and lofty house is requisite ; it may be opaqueon the north side with a glass roof, front, and ends, of any convenient or desired length, width, and one of moderate size, the height at the back wall may be fifteen feet, at front ten feet, and thewidth of the house fifteen feet. The floor may be either perfectly level, and the boxes placed on it, the lar-gest behind, so as their tops may form a slope to the front glass, as in the conservatory of Prince Borghese,
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