. The book of the garden. Gardening. CONSERVATORIES. 381 We are aware that this has been some with the happiest effects. The diffi- attempted in several instances; and in culty of combining horticultural conve- Fig. niences and graceful arrangement has been happily overcome, even where the houses were upon no very extensive scale. As plant structures may now be ex- pected to become more numerous, as well as more capacious, we hope that attention will be directed to this matter. Our Continental neighbours have at- tempted something, here and there, in the way of giving pictorial effect to
. The book of the garden. Gardening. CONSERVATORIES. 381 We are aware that this has been some with the happiest effects. The diffi- attempted in several instances; and in culty of combining horticultural conve- Fig. niences and graceful arrangement has been happily overcome, even where the houses were upon no very extensive scale. As plant structures may now be ex- pected to become more numerous, as well as more capacious, we hope that attention will be directed to this matter. Our Continental neighbours have at- tempted something, here and there, in the way of giving pictorial effect to the interior of their conservatories, while they tacitly adhere to a very formal style of laying out the grounds around them. We, on the other hand, continue to adopt quite an opposite practice. All, with us, is grace, freedom, and expansion without; while within, as was remarked by an observing Frenchman, "we huddle our plants together upon a stage or shelf, just as if our greenhouse was a shop, and the plants were objects placed for sale upon the ; At Chatsworth, Sion, Kew, Leigh Park, and some other places, both the useful and the beautiful have been carried out to a considerable extent—and upon a smaller scale at Poles, in a house designed by Mr Glendinning, at Mr Dillwyn Lle- wellyn's in Wales, and more recently at Mr C. Walner's at Haddesdon. Mr Llewellyns stove conservatory is internally arranged so as to represent a tropical forest scene on a small scale—the idea having been suggested to him on reading the graphic description given by Schomburg of the falls of the Berbice and Essequibo. In this house rockwork is introduced; a fall of water heated to a proper temperature is made to dash over the rocks and to fall into a pool which occupies the middle of the stove, forming a tiny aquarium and small island of rock- work, which, like that forming the cas- cade, is covered with ferns, orchids, lyco- podiums, &c. Innumerable seedling ferns spring u
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